Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Office routine is crowded with correspondence and conferences. Harriman assigns administrative detail to others, reserves policymaking for himself. Invariably he schedules a "business lunch"; among his guests have been almost all of Europe's bigwigs. For dinner he usually invites his own aides. Noon or night, the conversation sticks to politico-economic lines; Harriman has no small talk...
...Lords he was exasperatingly 'vindictive, suspicious and intolerant. He was as alarmingly unstable as a prima donna-until the moment he marched to the center of the stage and put on a priceless performance. The Nelson touch, says Admiral James, consisted of more than unorthodox audacities. Such naval details as supply, provision for his men, and overall shipshapeness were problems that he solved meticulously and with relish for every last detail...
...district attorney, a tall, grim-faced man, spoke for 60 minutes. He promised to prove that in 1945 the eleven Reds had laid their plans for violence. They had started classes in revolutionary technique, and the classes were still being run. Charged McGohey: "The Russian Revolution is studied in detail as a blueprint," and according to that blueprint it took only 50,000 trained revolutionaries to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat in Russia. "At the proper time," he said, the U.S. students of revolt are taught that "the party will lead the proletariat in revolution...
...their hideouts. She had George ("Shotgun George") Zeigler murdered in Cicero, Ill., Al Capone's old stamping ground, because he was losing his mind and getting talkative. From the Barkers' overstuffed, garish headquarters in Tulsa, she engineered her boys' forays right down to the detail maps for the getaway, and she made the Barker-Karpis mob the terror of the Midwest...
...Eighth Army "Desert Rats," a melting pot of Britons, Australians, Indians, Free French, New Zealanders and others, were never defeated in battle after Monty took command. His method sounded simple: refuse to move until every detail of the battle plan is in place; then slug it out to the finish-chiefly with line bucks but with an end run when necessary. To a flashy quarterback like Rommel, such tactics must have seemed relentlessly dull, relentlessly successful...