Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pacific, with a gourmet's enthusiastic attention to detail, described a new dish called "millionaires' salad," - a culinary triumph consisting solely of palm hearts soaked in vinegar...
...Hour means the undetermined (or secret) day and hour for the start of a military operation. Their use permits the entire timetable for the operation to be scheduled in detail and its various steps prepared by subordinate commanders long before a definite day and time for the attack have been set. When the day and time are fixed, subordinates are so informed...
...After a long wait I was able to see the police inspector in charge of the palace detail. . . . 'Quite impossible,' he said. 'Don't you realize that no one can enter this palace at all, except by appointment...
...That's not so far from the truth, either! That is what I meant when I mentioned 'great American journalism.' The welter of detail sometimes gets so confusing on this end that it's a pleasure to sit down and read the story after someone has taken the time to whittle down the detail and reduce everything to its proper proportion...
...reconnaissance raids could bring in was gratefully received. The Nazis were up to their ears in guessing games about the gathering invasion storm. Their Paris radio said that the Allies were massing "50 divisions and 80,000 airborne troops" for the invasion. Neutral Swedish sources went into even greater detail, presumably on German information. They said that the Allies had piled up some 50 British and Empire divisions in the United Kingdom, 40 to 50 U.S. divisions, front-line air strength of nearly 10,000 planes, 10,000,000 tons of shipping...