Word: gist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fired a volley of telegrams to newspapers warning them to check with the FCC before running it. Eleven of the 41 newspapers in Zenith's schedule canceled the ad. The TV-station-owning Detroit News ran it, but also published an answer. Gist of the News''s retort: "Anyone . . . who denies himself . . . the thrill of television because of 'frequency changes' could grow old and grey waiting for the change that may never come...
Other reporters in Tokyo paraphrased Royall's remarks. The gist...
...Many Secrets. The gist of the findings was that industry could not help AEC until AEC told industry much more about the atomic energy program. AEC should modify its sweeping code of secrecy, the committee said, since in many cases it was unnecessary and downright harmful to the program. Secrecy was carried so far, the committee implied, that businessmen often did not even know how or where to get the barest information...
...appetite for the Vitsi campaign. The guerrillas had a fresh, seemingly unlimited supply of land mines which they were using to the full; World War II veterans know what intensive mining does to a soldier's morale. Last month the Greek government sent an S.O.S. to Washington. Its gist: there are actually more guerrillas in Greece now than when the U.S. first started giving aid; continued U.S. aid is necessary...
Somewhere in one of West Point's official poop-sheets there are a few lucid paragraphs about the purposes of athletics. The gist of the idea is that it develops leadership and character, and building these two features is the Academy's raison d'etre...