Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marshall-because (they said) he failed to keep Short fully advised of the growing tenseness of the Japanese situation "of which information he had an abundance and Short had little...
Gerow was pinned because he confused rather than informed Short with his messages. And both Marshall and Gerow were criticized because they did not take steps in the last few days to inform Short that his anti-sabotage alert was inadequate to meet the storm that might break. (War Secretary Stimson characterized the criticism of Marshall as "entirely unjustified...
After World War I, as a temporary major and intelligence officer for Major General William S. Graves's expeditionary force en route to Siberia, he was one of a group entertained at a dinner by Jap officers. Eichelberger had seen no combat service in Europe, was short of medals. To keep him from being out-spangled by his Jap hosts, a brother officer insisted on lending him some campaign bars. The Japs were properly impressed...
Perhaps, if he had never lived, she would have rounded out her days puttering over flowers or watching children with that shrewd pity which results from old people's knowledge that every lifetime is short, that even children do not have long to live. Now she would die, a little prematurely, on the gallows. Frau Witzler listened carefully to the sentence, hid her face in her hands, wept quietly...
...second look, parched Canadians could see that the news was not intoxicatingly good. Beer and wine would still be as short as ever; Scotch and other imported liquors would be practically nonexistent ; rye would be scarce for the time being. The increase would have to be taken largely in gin, and that would be the same old watered wartime stuff...