Word: communique
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guarded communiqués reported four important breakthroughs on the tuberculosis front. Yet strategists and tacticians alike muffled their enthusiasm in public; the fight was not yet won; TB was still the No. 1 killer of U.S. citizens between...
...mortar fire. Then troops from the capital garrison at Asunción moved in. In no time at all, as revolutions go, Army strongman Lieut. Colonel Benítez Vera had fled from his Campo Grande headquarters. Box score: five killed, scores wounded. By noon, as the official communiqué said, "absolute tranquillity" again reigned over Paraguay...
...thankless task of covering SHAEF, he frequently clashed with the censors. He had the energy to get around on his own, the imagination to infuse official communiqués with color and meaning...
Reported a British communiqué: "This had a salutary effect on the rioters." There were 14 dead, 123 injured...
...blamed Army & Navy officers in the field, who used censorship to keep "news from Americans instead of facts from the enemy." Press-relations officers became "nothing but messenger boys," said Pratt, and most correspondents, under these official repressions, "turned into 'handout men,' waiting around headquarters for the communiqu...