Word: gist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Choice. From Potsdam to Tokyo went a declaration (by the U.S., Britain and China) offering concrete, unalterable terms upon which Japan could end the war. The phrase "unconditional surrender" was still used. But it applied only to the armies in the field. The terms were for the nation. Their gist...
...Speaker cannot make a speech. So he seethed in silence for three years, then resigned and made one of the most startling speeches ever made to a provincial house. In a bull voice he roared his personal view of his own party, the opposition, the people, even the weather. Gist: they were all awful. When World War II came along, he went overseas as a major. In Ottawa last week, officials who should know were betting that he would wind up in Prime Minister King's Cabinet...
...American Chamber of Commerce in London put out a timely, readable pamphlet setting forth the problems and perils of this alternative. Gist...
White House reporters were on their way out of the President's office with the week's gist of press conference news. Suddenly he halted them, smiled apologetically, announced that he had another special message to Congress...
Shattered Europe's health is not so bad as might have been expected. But the worst may be yet to come. Such was the gist of an UNRRA report last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. In Paris, Major General Warren Draper, chief of the public health branch of the Allied Military Government, said the same...