Word: gist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radio fans two winters ago were astounded to hear a ballplayer guest-starring on Information Please. He hit safely on the following: the difference between poi, soy, loy, oy; the gist of the Bordereau letter; an outline of the Willy-Nicky correspondence; the names of this generation's brightest comet, brightest planet, brightest satellite, brightest star. The ballplayer who made John Kieran look dumb was Morris ("Moe") Berg, catcher-coach of the Boston...
...desks of the network executives lay the neat briefs their lawyers had prepared for submission against FCC next week in a New York Federal court. They asked the court to annul the regulations issued last year by FCC and later suspended (TIME, May 12, Oct. 20). Gist of the networks' argument: "1) we are not monopolies; 2) but even if we were, FCC would not be entitled under law to determine the fact or to regulate against it." Last week's anti-trust suits looked at first like the Government's answer...
Riess's story of the Hess Flight, which he gives not as theory but as fact: Months before, 64 agents began filtering into Germany letters signed (it seemed) by members of that pro-Hitler, super-Cliveden Set, The Link. Their urgent gist: Linksmen awaited only a Sign, a Great Gesture on Germany's part, to overthrow a wobbling Churchill, betray England, end England's war. The surest conceivable gesture, they suggested, would be to open war on Russia...
Anyway, that is the gist of what each Eli says when he gives the Long Cheer, for in Aristo phones' "The Frogs" the frogs yell at the people going to the underworld. "Bre-ke-ke-kex," which translated into American vernacular means "Go to h--, you bums." At the same time, the bre-ke-ke-kex is the three staccato dots and the long dash which stand for "V" for Victory." --From the Yale News...
...Gist of the correspondents' reports on the Smolensk front-and inference of the Russians' having permitted the tour at all -was that the central front had settled down and the Reds neither planned nor expected a real offensive any time soon in that area...