Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spellman described in detail the work of the stretcher bearers and ambulances recently, when many lives were. saved only by the efforts of these volunteers under the direction of the Fire Department...
Rather their job is to dig up background information and usually-overlooked detail, so that TIME'S editors can give you the taste and smell and feel of the battles around Africa's rim -and the quality and flavor of the men who are fighting those battles and preparing for new ones and secretly working to win without battles...
...aroused by inhumanity so late in life is "any man's guess." But eventually he gave up his Legation post, returned to Manhattan to found the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Author Steele tells the story of Bergh's fanatical humanitarianism in ample detail, successfully resurrects one of the strangest 19th-Century Americans...
...fantastic when written in English," says Byas, "was as normal as the weather in Japan." After the Inukai murder, the first Japanese assassination in which officers did the actual killing, the Army and Navy took more & more to murder in order to get their way. Byas describes in wonderful detail the killing of Major General Tetsuzan Nagata in the War Office in 1935, and the brutal February Revolt in 1936 which grew out of the Nagata trial. This program of crime was rewarding. The threat of assassination could be as effective as assassination. In the end, the military became Japan...
...blame must be placed squarely on the conductors of the drive itself. Not to the higher-ups who planned and organized it down to the last detail, but to the rank and file worker must this shortage be attributed. A small group, who volunteered for the task, are by their negligence impairing a large part of the University's war effort...