Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blue followed its flash with five minutes of detail. Mutual had a commentator on the air in the first quarter-hour. It was about time for the regular overseas news casts. Within slightly more than two hours, overseas correspondents of NBC, CBS and Blue had been broadcasting the first local reactions - from Paris, Rome, London, Luxembourg. Before the night was over, the reports were coming in from Germany, Guam, Okinawa...
...books about Emily Dickinson are stories of their battles. Ancestors' Brocades, the most recent and one of the best, is a 464-page record of the exact circumstances of the first book publication of Emily's poems, after her death. It is a valuable book, rich in detail, illustrated with 16 fine photographs and sketches. Its careful report of intellectual brutality, spite, frauds, lawsuits, jealousies, of poems and letters destroyed, attempted blackmail fabrications and hoarded literary wealth, would be almost unbearable if it were not for the glimpses of Emily one gets beyond the foreground quarrels...
Thunderstruck, the Mester brothers promptly damned the FCC dictum as "very vicious," protested that their little trouble with Washington had been "all cleared up 100%." Then the brothers sat down to answer the charges in detail. They had 20 days to reply...
...detail of the letter over, her lawyer asked her permission to telephone a New York Daily News photographer. Miss Belmont, who was wearing a white sweater that day, assented. When the photographer arrived, Miss Belmont placed her hands behind her head, elbows out, swayed back happily, and smiled for a new photograph. But she still held to the complaint her lawyer had made in his letter to Harvest House. Its legal basis: her privacy had been invaded...
...Monty" and Lieut. General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey (TIME, March 19) had wrought a precisely timed, superbly managed amphibious operation, but when it came the only surprise about it was the lack of immediate German resistance. Monty had taken his own good time to put the last bit of detail into its tidy place. The 51st Highland Division, which always leads a major Montgomery assault, the gallant 15th Scottish Division, the famed "Desert Rats" of the 7th Armored Division, all had rehearsed their roles...