Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Arnold treats this subject in more detail. If supplied from the first with atomic bombs, he believes, the B-29s of the Twentieth Air Force could have accomplished all they did in Japan in a single day's raid. The cost, for bombs a measly $200,000,000. "Destruction by air power," says General Arnold, "has become too cheap and easy. . . . The existence of civilization [is] subject to the good will and good sense of the men who control air power...
...What is so secret about the World Council of Churches? What has it to hide? Millions of Protestants want to know, in detail, just what is taking place. . . . This is certainly the wrong way to begin a world fellowship...
...certainly a good tucker," said Edith Bolling Gait Wilson as he patted a lap robe around her), devout (he came to believe that the Secret Service acted directly under divine providence), and looking somewhat like one of the later Antonines, Colonel Starling soon found himself on the White House Detail. For almost 30 years, first as an "SS man" and later as chief of "the Detail," the Colonel suffered the grave responsibility of guarding the lives of five U.S. Presidents from the homicidal reflexes of their fellow citizens. The result of his intimate observations of his charges (from Woodrow Wilson...
...landed in the hospital. The course, because of unusual weather, was icy and fast. One sled had failed to make Shady Corner, two had catapulted into space at Zig Zag (where the 1932 German Olympic team met disaster) and sent the bobbers to the hospital. In bobsledding, attention to detail is not only prizewinning but healthy...
...Bunyan's "Christian" wound up in the City of God, so Hogarth's "Tom Rakewell" awoke from the happy madness of Drury Lane's Rose Tavern to the chains of the miserably insane in Bedlam. The year he died (1763), Hogarth added a final bitter detail to this engraving: a ha'penny stuck against the wall to indicate that Britannia was also an inmate...