Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lindner thereupon placed Harold in a deep hypnotic trance, suggested his baby hood : "You are getting smaller and younger. ... You are very small now, a very small baby ... in the cradle. . . . Why did you first start to blink your eyes?" Harold then related, in sharp detail, two frightening experiences apparently at the age of about six or eight months: 1) sitting in his mother's lap at the movies, he was terrified by a picture of a "wolf" (probably Rin-Tin-Tin, says Lindner); 2) next morning, waking early in his cradle, he saw that his father, looking wolfish...
Ball Games in Battle. The cause of the excitement was a touch football game in which the yellow-shirted Gas Detail was playing the pink-shirted NAPs (naval airplane pushers...
Hail the Conquering Hero (Paramount), the newest cinematic caprice from Preston Sturges (The Great McGinty, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek), beats a satirical tattoo on the American small town. But it tells a story so touching, so chock-full of human frailties and so rich in homely detail that it achieves a reality transcending the limitations of its familiar slapstick...
...will get no mere rehash of the earlier Beard histories. The Basic History has its own fresh organization (especially noteworthy are chapters on "A Broadening and Deepening Sense of Civilization," "Centralization of Economy," and "Gates of Old Opportunities Closing"), its own fresh feats of condensation without loss of striking detail...
...which the Japs had built a secondary airfield. At the edge of the plateau there is a sheer 200-ft. drop to jagged coral below; then the billowing sea. The morning I crossed the airfield and got to the edge of the cliff nine marines from a burial detail were working with ropes to pick up the bodies of two of our men, killed the previous day. I asked one of them about the stories I had heard...