Word: interpreted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Says Colonel Gillette of a heavily burdened Air Force officer: "The command of which he was adjutant was scattered in three service commands. His headquarters received distribution direct from the Adjutant General's Office and from each of these three service command headquarters . . . each felt a duty to interpret . . . and expand [each] document before forwarding. As a result he frequently received several hundred copies of directives requiring him to do something four different ways...
...distant words of philosophers. Such truths and ideals must be the equipment of millions of humble leaders close to the task. Americans are too close to their destiny to rely only on a few far-away leaders. They must find near at hand those who can formulate the causes, interpret principle in definite acts, nourish their spirit by giving them tasks to work on in the direction of their hopes...
...Russians have not remained silent and inscrutable. They have pledged to assist in creating a strong Poland, but the leaders of Hitler's most effective foe do not interpret this as conflicting with their intention of recovering the eastern region of Poland...
...translating "snafu" (positive) in a slightly bowdlerized form as "situation normal, all fouled up," and "tarfu" as "things are really fuddled up" (TIME, Nov. 30), you have overlooked the much more prevalent comparative form of "susfu," which we will for the sake of clarity as well as purity interpret as "situation unchanged, still fudged...
...there were a responsible and informed opposition, the correspondents would not have to choose between Government handouts and their own spasmodic and insufficient private investigations, and editors would be able to analyze and interpret and comment upon an informed debate instead of having to conduct the debate themselves...