Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...polls have just closed, and I have just now counted the ballots. Yet, even as I write this, I am beset by loud cries of foul play. The biggest beef (from the losers) is that the smallness of the pictures, plus the loss of detail inevitable in lithographic reproduction, has shown the winner to ad vantage, the losers to disadvantage...
...Division: Major General Manton S. Eddy, 52, 6 ft. 2, 210 lbs.; a stickler for detail and physical conditioning, who used to run his officers daily over a five-mile course in Africa to keep them in trim...
...probably knew more people at firsthand or by mail than any man, with the possible exception of Jim Farley, in the U.S. And he had become a master of the art of putting people at their ease and drawing them out, observing and remembering the significant detail, and reporting his findings in vivid, folksy, readable language. However little he himself may have suspected it, he was ready now for his great assignment...
Most generals, he says, kill themselves with detail work; as for Monty himself, he always "works on the chief of staff." The operational planning brain of his "first eleven" is his present chief of staff, little-known, nervous, brilliant, squeaky-voiced Major General Francis Wilfred ("Freddie") de Guingand. Freddie handles Monty's Intelligence and operations. Personnel and supply problems go to Major General Miles William Arthur Peel Graham, who has virtually revolutionized British Army supply methods. Both men are with him now in Normandy...
...Allied offensive was "launched and conducted with absolute coordination. .. . The enemy was prepared and equipped for this attack in the smallest detail...