Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...direst administrative punishments (i.e., short of court-martial) likely to be imposed for unmannerly "criticism": public reprimand, a lowly detail, or ignominious return...
...book's secret is the simple secret of all good reporting-fidelity and detail. It gives a good picture of what life on Guadalcanal is like. Tregaskis' description of the Battle of the Tenaru River, which he watched while Jap tracers wove a bright red network of visible death around his head, gets its power from the countless sights he remembers and sets down rather than from any comment he makes about them. Excerpts...
Milena's pictures revealed a smooth, sculptural quality, a command of detail, a passion for realism possessed by few modern painters. They recall the 15th-Century Italians. In St. John, the artist's favorite, the almost incredible detail of the long golden locks of hair might have been done by the hand of Fra Filippo Lippi, the veins on the hands and arms by the Surrealist virtuoso Salvador Dali. In Silence the delicacy of the veil over the sleeping girl's face, the pearl-like drops of water, suggested the Dutch masters. Milena's superb taste...
Jobs for 1943. If Adolf Hitler had plans for winning victory in 1943, he did not detail them. But the day after he spoke, vague outlines of his first steps could be seen. He reshuffled Germany's diplomatic representation in three important countries. To neutral Stockholm, whence Germany in the past sent out peace feelers, went Hans Thomsen, the steady, approachable, onetime Charge d'Affaires in Washington. To Spain, whose Mediterranean coastline confronts the Allies in North Africa, went Hans Adolf von Moltke, German Ambassador to Poland when that country was invaded. To Japan, replacing the tried & trusted...
...they can lick themselves, "says their instructor, "they can lick the Germans and Japs. I don't want any kid from Medford High School bellyaching, committing suicide or getting sent to the garbage detail when he goes into the Army...