Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazis said they had seized Mihailo-vich's wife, two sons and daughter, threatened to execute all relatives of Mihailovich's army and 16,000 hostages if the General did not surrender within five days. He did not. It is a misfortune that conquered Europe cannot learn detail by detail the effective methods used by the gaunt, hard, bronzed fighter on TIME'S cover (painted by one of his compatriots, Vuch Vuchin-ich-called Vuch, to rhyme with juke). But Draja Mihailovich is completely cut off from the democracies' press, hemmed in by the Axis forces...
...Federal Council of Churches last week outlined in detail the civilian "Re-sponsibilities of Christian Citizens in War; time." They should "count it a privilege to share in such self-denials" as rationing entails, "accept ungrudgingly the greatly increased taxation," cut personal expenses hard "in order to invest the savings in Government bonds." They should "repudi-ate hoarding," and "give on a truly sacrificial level for the alleviation of the vast suffering arising from the war." The resolution was adopted by 60-odd members of the executive committee of the Council, representing its 24 constituent sects. It pointed out that...
Patiently, when the excitement abated, Admiral Chester William Nimitz pulled all the threads together into the big pattern that spelled victory. That particular task was over; now for the next one. He busied himself with the endless detail of new plans for operations over his vast domain, from Alaska to the continental shelf of Australia. There would be more battles, other carefully calculated sallies against the Jap. Some would be victories. Some might be defeats. Chester William Nimitz would send out the orders-and wait...
Speaking over the Crimson Network last night Dean A. Chester Hanford discussed in detail many of the changes that had been wrought in various phases of the University life as a result of Pearl Harbor, especially those concerned with the summer term, Freshman in the House, and summer employment...
...Eyck and his northern followers painted not the imaginary, ideal world of Biblical legend, but the matter-of-fact scenes that they saw about them, picturing in almost superphotographic detail the chill landscapes, household furnishings, costumes and sharp-featured faces of their native Flanders...