Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zhukov had doubtless planned much of the offensive's detail-he is one of the Red Army's most brilliant strategists. Stalin has fullest confidence in him. Zhukov had been his chief of staff, in charge of Moscow's defense, during the first awful months of the Wehrmacht's invasion. He had been the shaper and adviser of the Stalingrad counteroffensive, engineer of the Red Army's sweep through the Ukraine...
...Commercial Power. The first five sections include 625 plants, commercial power accounts for another 260 units, laid out in detail...
Then one day when Anita was 13, fate dealt her a blow that sent her reeling. A child on the street, using a street child's dialect and detail, told her the facts of life. Totally unprepared for such reality, she was plunged into a year of adolescent hell. Disillusioned with her parents and friends, she went to church twice a day, often knelt for hours at a stretch. At length she announced that she was going to become a Carmelite, an order of nuns which requires complete seclusion. Soon afterward, at 14, she had a nervous breakdown...
Since Vargas seized the presidency of Brazil in 1930, he had often promised elections, but never held them. He destroyed old political parties, prevented new from forming. But the latent opposition has recently shown new strength. One reason was the U.S. presidential election, which the newspapers reported in detail, to the open applause of the Brazilian people...
...ardor, humor and radiance of life, the bloody darkness of death in war are constantly and insistently mingled in the Iliad. It is more than a war story of the Greeks, fighting on their beaches before Troy. Artful in detail, it is also awesome in implication. As the French scholar Rachel Bespaloff recently observed, the Iliad presents a civilized soldier, Hector, who has everything precious to defend, in contrast and finally in combat with the childlike yet superhuman fury which was Achilles...