Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After Bardoli, Patel became recognized as the Congress Party's chief organizer and disciplinarian. He checked up on what Gandhi's followers ate, drank and wore. He passed on the party lists in provincial elections. He approved party-sponsored legislation, and personally drafted much of it. No detail was too unimportant or sordid for Boss Patel. Recently he took charge of negotiations between the Congress Party Ministry in Bombay and the Western Indian Turf Association, which wanted to renew its license for the Bombay racetrack. Patel, who has never seen a horse race, knew what the traffic would...
...informant said the ban had not been discussed in detail, but it would apply presumably to any aspirant to the crown...
...detail was spared to make the royal visit enjoyable. Official introductions over, Trans-Jordan's King and Turkey's President drove along Ankara's tree-lined main avenue, past granite Government buildings and cheering throngs to the presidential villa for a quiet evening of chess. Next day there were prayers at the Hadji Bayram Mosque and a state dinner at Premier Recep Peker...
Winters' comparisons of Robinson with other poets are crisp, e.g., "[Thomas] Hardy describes the natural landscape in detail and implies the human tragedy. Robinson analyzes the tragedy and implies the landscape. . . ." The chief fault of this book is that poems are cited, not quoted, and the reader has to have Robinson's Collected Poems beside him to follow the criticism. But that may not be a bad idea...
...background of the Civil War has never been aired enough, though Spanish historians like Salvador de Madariaga have insisted on its importance. One of the few books to put light on the background is this long autobiography by an exiled Spaniard. It is valuable because it reflects in great detail the peculiar corruption and puzzlement of Spanish life between the Cuban (Spanish-American) and the Civil Wars...