All 37 Uses of
brief
in
Catch-22
- Appleby retreated from Yossarian with a look of loathing bewilderment and sulked in silence until he was in the jeep with Havermeyer riding down the long, straight road to the briefing room, where Major Danby, the fidgeting group operations officer, was waiting to conduct the preliminary briefing with all the lead pilots, bombardiers and navigators.†
Chpt 5 (definition 1)
- Appleby retreated from Yossarian with a look of loathing bewilderment and sulked in silence until he was in the jeep with Havermeyer riding down the long, straight road to the briefing room, where Major Danby, the fidgeting group operations officer, was waiting to conduct the preliminary briefing with all the lead pilots, bombardiers and navigators.†
Chpt 5 (definition 1)
- The officers of the other five planes in each flight arrived in trucks for the general briefing that took place thirty minutes later.†
Chpt 5 (definition 1)
- The three enlisted men in each crew were not briefed at all, but were carried directly out on the airfield to the separate planes in which they were scheduled to fly that day, where they waited around with the ground crew until the officers with whom they had been scheduled to fly swung off the rattling tailgates of the trucks delivering them and it was time to climb aboard and start up.†
Chpt 5 (definition 1)
- As he told them frequently in the briefing room, he believed they were at least ten missions better than any other outfit and felt that any who did not share this confidence he had placed in them could get the hell out.†
Chpt 6 (definition 1)
- Four times during the first six days they were assembled and briefed and then sent back.†
Chpt 12 (definition 1)
- Back on the ground, every eye watched grimly as he walked in dull dejection up to Captain Black outside the green clapboard briefing room to make his intelligence report and learned that Colonel Cathcart and Colonel Korn were waiting to speak to him inside.†
Chpt 13 (definition 1)
- He stepped into the briefing room with mixed emotions, uncertain how he was supposed to feel about Kraft and the others, for they had all died in the distance of a mute and secluded agony at a moment when he was up to his own ass in the same vile, excruciating dilemma of duty and damnation.†
Chpt 13 (definition 1)
- At the briefing room Yossarian made his intelligence report to Captain Black and then waited in muttering suspense with all the others until Orr chugged into sight overhead finally with his one good engine still keeping him aloft gamely.†
Chpt 15 (definition 1)
- The chaplain looked down at the open magazine compliantly and saw an editorial spread dealing with an American bomber group in England whose chaplain said prayers in the briefing room before each mission.†
Chpt 19 (definition 1)
- We were speaking about conducting religious services in the briefing room before each mission.†
Chpt 19 (definition 1)
- 'I suppose we'll have to keep you waiting outside until the briefing is over, because all that information is classified.†
Chpt 19 (definition 1)
- Frankly, though, I'd just as soon the officers and enlisted men didn't fraternize in the briefing room.†
Chpt 19 (definition 1)
- He just wanted to discuss the possibility of saying prayers in the briefing room before each mission.†
Chpt 20 (definition 1)
- ' after intent intervals: Ferrara Bologna (bomb line moved on map during) Skeet range Naked man information (after Avignon) Then he added: Food poisoning (during Bologna) and Moaning (epidemic of during Avignon briefing) Then he added: Chaplain (hanging around officers' club every night) He decided to be charitable about the chaplain, even though he did not like him, and under 'Feathers in My Cap!†
Chpt 21 (definition 1)
- Alongside 'Bologna (bomb line moved on map during)' 'Food poisoning (during Bologna)' and 'Moaning (epidemic of during Avignon briefing)' he wrote in a bold, decisive hand: ?†
Chpt 21 (definition 1)
- General Dreedle's nurse always followed General Dreedle everywhere he went, even into the briefing room just before the mission to Avignon, where she stood with her asinine smile at the side of the platform and bloomed like a fertile oasis at General Dreedle's shoulder in her pink-and-green uniform.†
Chpt 21 (definition 1)
- And let's continue this goddam briefing before the war ends.†
Chpt 21 (definition 1)
- As soon as Major Danby had been pushed outside, though, there was no one to continue the briefing.†
Chpt 21 (definition 1)
- With a masterful flourish, he brought the briefing to a close and turned expectantly to receive ardent congratulations from General Dreedle — who was already striding out of the building without a glance backward, trailing his nurse and Colonel Moodus behind him.†
Chpt 21 (definition 1)
- We may even get there in time for the briefing.†
Chpt 29 (definition 1)
- They arrived at Colonel Cathcart's group too late to attend the preliminary briefing and hear Major Danby insist, 'But it is there, I tell you.†
Chpt 29 (definition 1)
- 'What's the trouble?' inquired Colonel Korn, moving leisurely across the briefing room with his hands in his pockets and his tan shirt baggy.†
Chpt 29 (definition 1)
- Carry on with the briefing, Danby.†
Chpt 29 (definition 1)
- Don't forget that General Peckem will be here for the full briefing, and you know how he feels about bomb patterns.†
Chpt 29 (definition 1)
- I'll conduct the briefing.'†
Chpt 29 (definition 1) *
- Colonel Cathcart inquired, after he had driven up for the full briefing with General Peckem and Colonel Scheisskopf.†
Chpt 29 (definition 1)
- I was going to conduct the briefing anyway.†
Chpt 29 (definition 1)
- Colonel Cathcart countermanded himself an instant later when he remembered how good a job Colonel Korn had done before General Dreedle at the first Avignon briefing.†
Chpt 29 (definition 1)
- He had proved himself brilliantly under pressure, and he concluded the briefing with an inspiring peroration that every instinct told him was a masterful exhibition of eloquent tact and subtlety.†
Chpt 29 (definition 1)
- …or even to conspire again with Dobbs to murder Colonel Cathcart, for the alert sounded suddenly at dawn the next day and the men were rushed into the trucks before a decent breakfast could be prepared, and they were driven at top speed to the briefing room and then out to the airfield, where the clitterclattering fuel trucks were still pumping gasoline into the tanks of the planes and the scampering crews of armorers were toiling as swiftly as they could at hoisting the thousand-pound…†
Chpt 35 (definition 1)
- Almost two hundred tired, gaunt, downcast men stood holding their parachute packs in a somber and unstirring crowd outside the briefing room, their faces staring blankly in different angles of stunned dejection.†
Chpt 36 (definition 1)
- That's odd, Chaplain,' said the officer, taking from the folder another typewritten yellow page, 'because I have here in my hands now another statement from Colonel Cathcart in which he swears that you refused to co-operate with him in conducting prayer meetings in the briefing room before each mission.†
Chpt 36 (definition 1)
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- He wrote brief, untroubled letters to her once a week, sometimes twice.†
Chpt 25 (definition 2)
- …gunners below whom he could not even see and could not possibly harm with his machine gun even if he ever did take the time to open fire, at Havermeyer and Appleby in the lead plane for their fearless straight and level bomb run on the second mission to Bologna where the flak from two hundred and twenty-four cannons had knocked out one of Orr's engines for the very last time and sent him down ditching into the sea between Genoa and La Spezia just before the brief thunderstorm broke.†
Chpt 30 (definition 2)
- The bottle shattered harmlessly far away with a brief and muted noise.†
Chpt 39 (definition 2)
- He smiled nervously when his brief ordeal had ended.†
Chpt 41 (definition 2) *
Definitions:
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(1) (brief as in: briefed her) to give a summary of important information to someone
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(2) (meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) Brief is most commonly encountered as an adjective meaning "of short duration." Other meanings derive from the idea of short--as when making a long story short by summarizing it, or when wearing briefs (underwear).