Word: reportable
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...relief column? Impossible! With one company away on an island-clearing operation, there's only one company of Legionnaires left to hold Moncay citadel, as the Viet Minh doubtless know. Towards morning the explosions stop. The air is warm and heavy and very still. The meteorological report forecasts a typhoon...
...started a simple experiment in infiltration. To four of the worst gangs in Central Harlem-the Jay Bees, the Gay Blades, the Royals and the Knights-it assigned four young social workers, three of them Negroes. By last week, the council was able to tell, in a 162-page report, what its social workers had learned, and what they had accomplished by seemingly casual steering...
When the evidence was all in, and the FCCommissioners had taken a long look at CBS's "field sequential," RCA's "dot sequential," and CTI's "line sequential" systems (TIME, Nov. 28, 1949), they issued the First Report...
...council social workers used the slow approach. They began by loafing near gang hangouts, gradually drawing the boys into conversation, playing the jukebox with them, letting them cadge occasional cigarettes. As distrust faded, the council men identified themselves, proved that they were not cops and not out to nag, report the gang members or break their gangs. On the contrary, they were available for advice, an occasional two-bit loan, or help in arranging for the use of a gym or a place to hold a dance...
...system stumbles over convertibility. Though it claims to have a workable converter, RCA will not estimate its possible price. The FCC "First Report" states flatly that "no practical [RCA] converter was demonstrated at any of the demonstrations on the record...