Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...separated from the dining alcove only by a shelf unit with sliding doors through which food and conversation could flow freely. The kitchen also had a clear view of the children's playroom and the play yard beyond. There was no doubt about the convenience of this detail in a home with small children, as long as the children stayed...
Messner, who has taken only one Social Relations course (Professor Pitirim A. Sorokin's "Contemporary Sociological Theory), said he wroth the examination "from the point of view of the Harvard man who doesn't stoop to mere detail...
This time Mayor Bill O'Dwyer put on a special detail of 3,250 cops, made the whole force carry their two-foot nightsticks during the day, set up 55 heavily patrolled routes over which nonstriking hackies could drive and be protected. The union bragged on the first day that it had kept 97% of the city's 11,814 cabs in the garage. Manhattan streets were free of honking cabs and their aggressive jockeys; it was almost possible to cross a street without danger to life & limb...
...sound. It has probably flown above Mach 2 (1,324 m.p.h. in the cold upper atmosphere) and reached a height above 60,000 ft., a record for airplanes. The big secret - what happens as it passes Mach 1 -is well kept. Chuck has been so carefully coached on this detail that he knows how to ward off questions before they are asked. Possibly something dramatic happens. It would be just as dramatic, perhaps more so, if nothing at all happens...
...officials of the court will be in uniform and will wear pistol belts. Army tradition dictates that the detail of courtmartial must be armed, and before the war members of military courts were sabers. Later the sabers gave way to pistols, which in turn were succeeded by pistol belts...