Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They also attacked John Scott [TIME'S Stockholm correspondent], going into detail as to his antecedents, Scotch-Irish they said, but suddenly, before you know what's happened, his real name is revealed as "Isadore Kaplan," just as surely as President Roosevelt's name is "Rosenfelt." And of course, since he is a Jew, what else could be expected of him, but that he write typically Jewish lies to be printed by your Jewish-controlled magazine...
Though not yet charted in detail, the new office of military science appeared likely to consist of a board of top U.S. scientists. The board would order and supervise Government-financed research projects, which might either be farmed out to university laboratories under contract or carried out in Government laboratories under the board's direct control. Its object would be to keep at least a nucleus of civilian scientists at work on preparedness after...
...Ubico. They have admired Guatemala's orderliness, its clean-swept streets, its impressive public buildings. But these observers did not see, or else ignored, the real Guatemala behind this façade. Last week, after a stay in Dictator Ubico's realm, a TIME correspondent reported in detail on one of the world's most flagrant tyrannies...
...home and abroad-most notably as MacArthur's technical adviser in the Philippines. He had kept his eye on his number, acquired as solid a military background as a U.S. officer could get. He had diligently cultivated his chief virtues of smartness, judgment, a concern for fine detail and a marked ability to make people work...
...B.E.F. from Dunkirk. Then it was little more than a bulldog determination on the part of Britain to fight on alone, and some day, somehow, to carry the war back to the enemy. Now, after years of training and preparation, the plan had grown to a complexity of detail incomprehensible to the civilian mind. Item: the Navy's overall plan for the operation ran to 800 type written pages; a complete set of naval orders including maps weighed 300 pounds. Yet the broad outlines were simple : 1) organize the force; 2) move it across; 3) sustain...