Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Diplomatic efforts . . . to reach a general, fair and equitable arrangement on various questions pending between [Mexico and the U.S.] are about to reach a completely satisfactory result. . . . I hope that within a few days the nation will learn in detail the importance of the solutions obtained...
...works in masses of racy and ironic detail, leaves almost nothing out, has no use for filters. By the open sewers of Swampoodle (an Irish slum), in bivouacs and bordellos as well as at Willard's bar and the President's receptions, Author Leech makes history's dead bones come to life...
Miss Kelly (in real life, Mrs. William D. English of Beverley, Mass.) lifts this story above the run of woman's-magazine serials by her sincerity, her fondness for detail and her agile-if highly conditioned -intelligence. The husband's work is described, for example, with enthusiasm and at length. (The author thought her novel was about housing, not marriage; but this time the publishers were right.) She handles many emotional atmospheres and tensions with at least charcoal accuracy. Much firsthand observation has evidently gone into the book...
...different agencies, whose overlapping functions FORTUNE charts in detail, are supposed to gear together the country's armed effort with its industrial capacity; they are not succeeding. There is no forceful high War Policy Board. There are innumerable agencies at the same level of authority. There is no integrated authority. There is no rational organization. There is no rational plan. Who, or what, is at fault? "The major responsibility for this state of affairs rests squarely on the doorstep of the President...
Physicians treating victims of air-raid neuroses, warned Dr. Crichton-Miller, must examine every detail of their patients' lives and bodies. Examples...