Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last great tragedy of World War II -the sinking of the cruiser Indianapolis in the Philippine Sea last July, with the loss of 880 lives-was unveiled in full detail last week. Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz called in newsmen, said: "We have no desire or intention to deny any of our mistakes." Then he confessed four grievous ones...
...gave up bobsledding six years ago. Then big, high-strung Bill Linney got the itch again and vowed he would become U.S. bobsled champion. An engineer by trade, he went about it with an engineer's eye for detail...
...Naval Observatory (who should have known better) seemed to hope that Diana could be used to map the moon. But Diana's 12° radio beam is 24 times wider than the moon by the time it gets there. Even an enormously narrowed beam would not give more detail than a first-rate telescope. Other astronomers were inclined to sniff at the moon as finished astronomical business...
...succeed Beria, Stalin chose Colonel General Sergei Nikolaevich Kruglev, a baby-faced leviathan (6 ft. 2 in., 245 Ib ) who looks like a cop and is one. Kruglev bossed the police detail that guarded Stalin at Yalta and Potsdam, chaperoned Molotov to San Francisco and London. At Potsdam he chain-smoked, enthusiastically bummed chewing gum from every Yank he met, consumed vast quantities of food and vodka, kept his belly shaking with laughter between mouthfuls. President Truman liked Kruglev well enough to give him an autographed picture, a Legion of Merit...
...Peter Pan who has married seven Wendys, and three weeks ago went through the legal farce with Wife No. 8 (Georgina Campbell), was still flying in & out of temperamental windows. A patrolman's routine written report at the Mamaroneck, N.Y. station house: "At 7:32 p.m. I was detailed to Mr. Manville's residence. Mr. & Mrs. Manville were having a family argument and Mr. Manville requested that I stand by for awhile. On detail...