Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alice is a brisk, sober, sandy-haired woman, with thin lips and level blue eyes. Even when she was a rookie, fellow cops on the auto-theft detail admired her for her cool nerve. She went anywhere, any time, and she carried her blue .38-caliber service pistol as naturally as she did her handbag. In a year, she built up quite a record of arrests...
...sweating pack of Allied war correspondents waited restlessly outside the neat little house of General Hideki ("The Razor") Tojo, wartime premier of Japan. Tipped off that General MacArthur had ordered the hard-bitten little war lord's arrest, the newsmen had scrambled out ahead of the Army detail that would take him in. They grew impatient, sent a Japanese in to offer him a lift into town if he'd surrender to them instead. He refused to emerge from his study...
...atomic bomb and Science's share of it would be to explain "how it works." Leonard got hold of the now famous Smyth report, sat up until 4 a.m. digesting it and wrote his story, which, checked by an atomic physicist, turned out to be correct in every detail. The Smyth report later proved to be the real news of atomic fission...
...Show Place. Like most Americans in Moscow, the Atkinsons lived in the large, gloomy maze called the Metropole Hotel. Their one small room was kitchen, dining room, bedroom, study and part-time office. Meals were prepared on a one-plate electric stove and Mrs. Atkinson remembers in detail her daily forays for food in Moscow's rigidly controlled and scantily stocked stores and markets. Non-rationed food was available in a few restaurants-at $70 for a dinner for two. The vast majority of Russians in Moscow, the Soviet showpiece so far as creature comforts go, existed on meager...
...careful detail, the book is not complete. Boyer ignores the internal political frictions that have ripped the union from the start. He makes the simple assumption that the N.M.U. is a representative American union. It is not. Not many unions are as militant or as politically conscious. Not many union men manage to combine so much thought and action in their lives. In these respects Boyer sometimes writes naively. But it is a full and important book...