Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most citizens read a few paragraphs of the news summaries, then gave up.* In bar and barbershop, the program went widely undiscussed. Until it was cut down into specific projects, polished with hard detail, and most important, implemented by a concrete discussion of ways & means to carry it out, Franklin Roosevelt's plan would merely gather dust in the most respectable of Congressional pigeonholes...
...bombing of Axis ports and supply lines; the other was the operation of fighter planes and attack bombers in coordination with ground activities. Spaatz's deputy to run the long-range bombing was Jimmy Doolittle, who had been none too happy with the mass of administrative detail which his original command had involved. His deputy to command the ground support: Arthur Coningham, the tall, genial expert who had run Tedder's Egyptian show...
...that stayed with him, from a scowling papier mache image of II Duce to a tawdry effigy of Christ adorned with trinkets by Italy's praying poor. Back in the U.S., Blume spent two years pondering what he had seen, the next three years painting the vivid, swarming detail of The Eternal City with its popeyed Mussolini...
...from the ground up. Before he considered himself ready to sing Hans Sachs, he made a trip to Nuremberg, ransacked its old churches and libraries for material on the medieval Meistersinger. Schorr never sang a major role without shutting himself up for hours before the performance, going over every detail with meticulous care. Said he: "I have a great responsibility to the audience. I would not go out to a nightclub the evening before I sing. If I did, and my performance was poor, it would be my fault...
...Stalingrad front-the first foreigner so trusted. In a bomber with two other American officers, General Pat was flown over the front where the Russians were completing one of the most complicated encircling operations in military history. Pat & friends saw it all in detail. Later the Hurley party toured the front in a jeep, lived at field headquarters and had the best of Russian hospitality and cooperation. In return, Pat Hurley taught his warrior friends the high, piercing Choctaw...