Word: gist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lewis waited four days. Then he wrote his miners again. The gist of it: "I never told you to strike. This is all your own idea...
...Khan, replied to the Indian. For 3¼ hours (breaking Andrei Vishinsky's U.N. record of two hours), he spoke without script, working only from notes passed up on an assembly-line basis by his advisers. On the third day, Sir Mohammed spoke 2½ hours more. His gist: India was lying, was itself guilty of racial war against Pakistan or-in U.N.'s own word for it -of "genocide." Cried he: "[Moslems] are expected to say: 'My brother may have been killed, my father may have been killed, my wife may have been raped...
...clock one afternoon last week, waiting newsmen were summoned into the Senate's majority conference room. Frayed and weary after four hours of haggling, Senator Robert Taft announced that he was about to start rewriting the Republican policy statement on inflation. Could he give out the gist of it? Not until it was rewritten, said Taft. "The words have to be exact or they don't mean anything," he said, flashing a copy of the statement, which was X-ed out, scrawled over and heavily edited in nearly every line...
Foote, Cone & Belding's Ralph B. Austrian sounded an even more ominous note on the loss in radio listeners. The gist of his news: Television sets are wooing away from radio a rapidly increasing part of its audience and establishing "a new trend in listening habits. The final effect will be a reduction in radio billings." The cash thus freed, thought Austrian, would soon begin to flow into television, for which he saw a bright future. By the end of next year, he predicted, television would command an audience of 4,500,000 with 750,000 television sets...
Last Tuesday, one of the more insidious news items of recent times slipped into the press and lay quietly in small print amid the flurry and bombast of election returns. The gist was this; State Attorney Clarence a. Barnes had filed a bill which would prevent all Massachusetts schools, private or public, from employing as teachers Communists and "others who advocate the overthrow of government by force or violence...