Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were hundreds of thousands of dossiers, each at least 18 inches thick and a foot square, including maps, plans, photographs and guidebooks, giving minute detail about every part of Britain. Even tourist picture post cards and newspaper photographs were included...
Eleven months later, after a row over a one-day pass which the ensign charged was unauthorized, Compton was sent back to the U.S. with his battalion, for leave and reassignment. But on his next detail at Camp Endicott, R.I., he found himself once more bossed by the same young officer, by now a lieutenant, junior grade. The lieutenant promptly began to ride him systematically, said Compton, gave him low marks in attitude and discipline, sent him on 15-mile hikes, imposed unnecessary discipline. When the next quarterly ratings were issued, Compton was found to be "unfit." He was discharged...
...Midwest Senators who disagree wholeheartedly on almost every detail of U.S. foreign policy saw eye to eye last week on one point. Both thought it high time for the two Presidential candidates to make a few clear, forceful statements about the questions that emerged at Dumbarton Oaks...
After the meeting the General sets out in his jeep to visit his corps commanders, to detail plans, to check on battle performance. The commanders know that the General is no martinet, but they also know that he can be ruthless in putting the ax to any command if it fails to meet his combat standards (Hodges has sacked several generals and colonels, some of them his close friends...
Irvin S. (for Shrewsbury) Cobb, famed American humorist, whose last touch of humor-revealed after his death last March-was a request for a simple, "cheerful" funeral with his ashes to be buried under a dogwood tree in his hometown of Paducah, Ky., had his wish granted in every detail but one: when the dogwood tree was planted over the grave, his desire that there be "no long faces and no show of grief" went unobserved...