Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inventions which Gernsback likes best are the "osophone," an instrument designed to enable deaf people to hear through their teeth, and the "hypnobioscope," an electrical device for educating people while they sleep. During the war Gernsback has advanced a great variety of military ideas, all described in plausible detail, including a flying tank which would shed its wings when it landed, and radio-controlled vehicles which might be sent ahead of an army to explode land mines...
...Alberto took charge. When a worried U.S. mission arrived, his dictator-boss (untroubled by constitutional restrictions) had already given him power over nearly every detail of Brazilian economic life. If the Americans expected to meet a wordy tropical dreamer, João Alberto surprised them with his quality of calm decision, his drive and force...
...draft F.D.R. looked like an increasingly tough job. The President, tireless Drew Pearson informed the U.S., might want to be exempted on grounds of his indispensability for world peace. "Whether he would be president of a League of United Nations, or American representative on it, is a detail." The main thing, Pearson thought he knew, was that Mr. Roosevelt's next personal Four-Year Plan reached beyond the national scene...
...with an identical bill-the Senators hastily slapped it back on a subcommittee desk, and now called for a full-dress investigation. O'Mahoney's fight was bolstered by sensational feature stories in the Chicago Sun and New York City's leftish PM telling in great detail about slush funds, special pressures on Congressmen's home-town law firms, and a flood of almost identical letters to legislators...
Last week the search was conducted, and the King's safety assured, by a detail of Home Guards in drab battle dress...