Word: detail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the best of care, in severe cases survival beyond 30 is rare. Last week, on the campus of integrated Marshall College in Huntington. W. Va., Marclan Walker was a focus of interest not only because she was going on 22, but because she had told her story in detail in Ebony. It was a story of living from crisis to crisis, and being pulled through each time by blood transfusions...
Controversial Moon. The moon is an exception. It is so close that it shows a wealth of detail that astronomers have studied for centuries. They have also argued bitterly over many questions presented by its serene face, e.g.: Are the ring-shaped craters the result of volcanic activity or meteor impacts...
Castro's landing had been a comical affair, and the Times gleefully described it as such. It told in pointed detail how Batista had received intelligence of the landing, and disposed what must have been a large part of his navy to watch for the rebel ships. When Castro finally appeared, he was in a single motor boat, towing a barge, and flying a Mexican flag. A government coast guard cutter closed in, and the rebels, trying to escape, promptly ran aground on the shore. At this point a government fighter plane appeared and strafed the barge, so that Castro...
...Felsenstein, opera is a highly seasoned slice of life; to Wallmann, it is musical pie-in-the-sky. East Berlin's Turandot, staged by Felsenstein Protégé Joachim Herz but supervised by the boss himself, stressed naturalistic stage effects, an infinite concern for dramatic detail, and acting of startling realism. The curtain rose on an iron grille stretched across the proscenium, representing the palace gate separating the chorus of rag-clad Chinese from the palace courtyard, where one of Turandot's unsuccessful suitors was about to be executed. The mob faced the audience in silence...
...highest in the industry. By 1958 the figure dipped to 25.1?, more than 12% below the industry's average. Nyrop, who pared the CAA budget by $15 million and whittled CAB's mail payments by $13 million a year, cut costs at Northwest by poking into every detail. He turned up behind ticket counters, spent off-hours flying Northwest's 20,000-mile system to find tiny economies...