Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon as the attack was known to me and I had seen the students, I telephoned to the police and sent the boys to see the police. Also a reporter from one of the papers talked to me about the incident. I gave him all the facts in detail. If that is hushing up a matter, I fear that I do not understand the English language...
...reporter spelled out the launchings in heartfelt detail: "An NCO presses a black button. The earth trembles. A hellish sound. . . In a fraction of a second the gigantic explosive missile shoots off and glides as quick as lightning over the launching track . . . with a gruesome roaring and thundering...
...bombs which fell on Pearl Harbor caught the U.S. with only two hospital ships to its name. By this year's end it will have 24. TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod described one of them in highly graphic detail in this cable from Saipan...
Unloading the Detail. The 89 pages given over to wartime Washington are a brief masterpiece of social reporting. No U.S. writer can match Dos Passos' use of the hackneyed, senseless, stupefying jargon of political insincerity. Nor is any other writer so quick to detect the process by which ideas harden into cliches, stock answers, pat remarks as offensive as the slamming of a door...
...Passos was in Washington when the antistrike bill was passed over the President's veto (TIME, July 5, 1943). He talked with cynical New Dealers, got in an argument with a Communist taxi driver. He found out what "unloading the detail" means. He asked what happened when an industry was taken over by the Government. " 'That's easy .. . first we call a meeting of department heads.' " 'Aren't they all busy? . . .' " 'Nobody's ever so busy he can't take on something more, if he knows how to unload...