Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...testimony of one informant stood out. Offering extensive detail that seemed to parallel other reports, he said that Gaddafi had ordered the assassination of several top American officials if no hit team could reach the President. With that, security was greatly increased not only for the President but for Vice President George Bush, Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger as well. Next, Secret Service protection was extended for the first time to Reagan's top aides: James Baker, Edwin Meese and Michael Deaver...
Reagan himself is not quite the detached Chairman of the Board of popular myth, or so his aides assert. They insist that he studies briefing papers longer and in more detail than the public ever suspects. The President can be fiercely decisive on matters that involve his ideological principles. The troika had to restrain him last August from announcing his decision to fire the striking air-traffic controllers until the strike had actually begun. Reagan has even been known to overrule a unanimous troika opinion on issues about which he feels deeply. The three all thought last summer that...
...initial but unconfirmed reports that a Libyan hit squad had been dispatched to the U.S. by Muammar Gaddafi to assassinate President Reagan and other high federal officials took a more ominous turn last week. Intelligence officials grilling an informant about the plot are now impressed by the amount of detail he provided about the training and equipping of Libyan assassination teams. The informant claimed that five Libyan hitmen had already entered...
...references but one of the Battle of the Marne, in the chapters leading up to the battle. Though it may seem absurd, I even cut out all references to the ultimate defeat of Germany. I wrote as if I did not know who would win.") An advocate of "corraborative detail," she uncovers and utilizes insignificant facts to crystallize the details of a scene and make the reader feel a part of it. ("When I was investigating General Mercier, the Minister of War who was responsible for the original condemnation of Dreyfus and who in the course of the Affair became...
...squandered his lead as an 18-year-old, he had been stamped as bad luck, and most young "rabbits," as they were called, avoided him. He had come close a few times after that initial effort but had choked in the clutch. He hated them in every detail, from pearl-white smiles, to their clone-like personalities. "Thank y'all. 'Preciate it," they would invariably say when congratulated for a good shot. "Well, I jus' try to play one hole at a time," they would slowly explain to sportswriters. No character. They composed a lumpy, mushy group of golfers, with...