Word: briefed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brief In Quemoy, Judge Hu Tao-hui resigned under fire after he granted a divorce without hearing the husband's side, then later married the divorcee...
...late, famed Nobel prizewinner Undset (she died in 1949) writes of desperate Norwegian spinsters who are roughly used by all who know them, of babies who bring brief happiness to love-starved households and then sicken and die, of people who hesitate to rescue others for fear of being responsible for the lives they save. The conclusion of each sweetly-sad story is usually damp with tears: Thjodolf ends with its heroine reeling to her bed, where "the weeping came, bitter and burning"; Simonsen ends with its hero on a train speeding away from his loved ones forever: "He wiped...
...heavily into steel after the war, when most other funds shunned it as a prince-and-pauper industry, saw its hopes for steel realized when the value of its investment grew from $65 million to $142 million. When the recession began in 1957, M.I.T. reckoned that it would be brief. It stayed in growth stocks throughout, now needs little portfolio shifting for the economic recovery...
...brief comparison of this team with last years' E.I.B.L. championship squad may prove instructive. Both possessed a trio of .300-hitters (though the averages of this year's Big Three were somewhat higher); and both had dependable pitching staffs...
...Soviets always staged a good show. They grabbed off a large, airy upstairs conference room, while Britain and the U.S. were lodged in the basement. They were the only Big Four delegation to brief newsmen in two languages (Russian and English). While Western spokesmen -the U.S.'s earnest Assistant Secretary of State Andrew Berding, Britain's smooth Peter Hope and France's witty Pierre Baraduc-were stuck with reporting the actual facts of the conference, Russia's lively Mikhail A. Kharlamov labored under no such handicap, tirelessly and articulately peddled the Communist line...