Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington as lawyer for the old NRA, later helped Milo Perkins get his famed food-stamp plan started. Now he is an anonymous assistant to WPBoss Donald Nelson, serving as buffer and jack-of-all-trades, working ably and realistically on a dozen jobs at once. A bear for detail, he has taken all the load of minutiae off Nelson's overburdened shoulders...
...June 27 Churchill and Roosevelt said in Washington: The coming operations, which were discussed in detail at our Washington conferences between ourselves and our respective military advisers, will divert German strength from the attack in Russia...
...least, the Allies must assume. Last week Nazi Elite Guards and a two-mile column of tanks, troop-carriers and artillery paraded down the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Dr. Goebbels practically invited British and U.S. troops ("those MacArthurs") to invade coastal Europe (see col. j). D.N.B. reported in fearsome detail the strength, depth and impregnability of the Nazi's coast defenses. With all of these noises the Germans were cooking propaganda. But R.A.F. reconnaissance, R.A.F. losses over northern France and underground reports from Occupied Europe all attest to strong German armies waiting in western Europe, a 25-mile layer...
Brainard Cheney writes with the homely hardness of a grindstone. At his best he is a master at making detail, action and physical sensation palpable, and almost Homerically fresh. At his worst he is a pedestrian writer, capable of serious lapses of literary judgment, but enormously sensitive to a certain landscape and a certain people. If he ever wrestles a subject his size with grace as well as grit, he may make literary history...
...shaded Fort Des Moines last week greeted the first WAACs-800 of them, 440 officer candidates and 360 auxiliaries. Twenty-one women reporters, twelve men reporters, 22 photographers were waiting for them. Thousands of press words choked the wires with intimate WAAC detail, so that U.S. citizens knew all about WAAC food, clothes, beds (short-sheeted by male Army pranksters), orchids, sore feet, the first ride in an Army truck, the lingerie drying racks in the laundry, the cannon at reveille, the embarrassed male non-com who said: "You in the blue dress, step forward...