Word: informality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...further footnote to the business of political reporting, Laguerre says that the French Communists, who were once very helpful, have clammed up since the reinstitution of the Corn-inform. Like any other political party, however, they play politics within their own organization and can thus be approached individually. The trick then, as it is in all political reporting, is to distinguish between the real news the politico has to offer and the propaganda he is trying to put across...
Then a German police car and a U.S. MP jeep arrived (they had been summoned by an indignant neighbor who had finally decided to inform the authorities of the goings-on at Frau Lehrte's). The Russian jerked himself erect. Forgetting his motorcycle, he walked off in the direction of the Soviet zone. But when he saw a second U.S. jeep pull up, he ducked behind a tree, raised his rifle and fired four quick shots. German and U.S. police flung themselves behind the parked cars; the Russian slipped away. A German policeman, wounded...
SEPT. 22. The Western powers inform Moscow that they see no point in continuing the talks unless Moscow intends to stick to the Aug. 30 directive...
...true the [Yugoslav] government decided that [lesser officials] did not have the right to give important information to anyone . . . All our clerks . . . gave various people state economic secrets which could and sometimes did fall into the hands of our common enemies . . . To obtain such information, Soviet people should go higher, that is to the Yugoslav Communist Party and the Yugoslav government . . . From all this it can be seen that the above reasons are not the real cause for the measure now taken by the Soviet government and it is our desire that the U.S.S.R. openly inform us what the matter...
...exceptionally acute. Those who venerate the best in acting will easily forgive the rare excesses in this Hamlet, and will easily get over disappointments as beautiful as these; they will not soon forget the lively temperateness, the perfect commingling of blood and judgment, the high grace and spirit, which inform the performance as a whole...