Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Secretary Forrestal and the Navy wanted most was that Congress declare an armistice, and set up a civilian committee to study every detail and consequence of a merger. Like his admirals, Forrestal feared that Congress was being asked to rush the shaping of a single department without shaping the details which would make it workable...
...famed diatribe against Samuel Richardson's much-revered classic, Pamela, Henley insisted that it was Britain's mealy-mouthed writers, not her realists, who made "fornication [not] a detail (as it is in life)" but "the staple of the book." Readers were not accustomed to such blunt talk in the '80s, and under Henley's editorship, one magazine after another lost the bulk of its subscribers...
With Hercules and his shipmates, Graves becomes an ancient Greek, moving among demigods and goddesses, myths and monsters with an easy familiarity and a wealth of erudite detail; both sometimes seem too much of a good thing. Atomic-age readers, ill-attuned to the leisurely, formal talk of Myth-Age Greeks, may find themselves skipping some of the longer speeches...
...Liberty) Division in World War I, came home to the law. In 1940 he took time off from the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals bench in Manhattan, went to Plattsburg to retrain for the new war he saw coming. One afternoon, while emptying garbage cans with a KP detail, he got his summons from Stimson...
This blueprint was yet to be worked out and approved in detail. But the starting principles had been agreed on: the four zones would exchange goods and services; Germany would be allowed a limited, rigidly controlled import-and-export trade...