Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carrying his hands in his pockets where they gripped pistol butts was no idle gesture with Big Bill (Colonel) Starling, whose forth coming retirement as head of the White House Secret Service detail you announce in TIME...
During the Versailles Peace Conference days-so the anecdote goes-he was credited with the saving of the life of Clemenceau when Cottin fired at him twice. Starling and the late Dick Jervis (then head of the White House detail) were riding in an open car behind Clemenceau's. . . Cottin stepped from a crowd and fired at Clemenceau. His first shot grazed the head of the aged statesman. Before his second bullet could go-so said witnesses-Starling had put a bullet in his hand, deflecting the second...
Some of Wilbur Cross's pedagogical detail will be of interest only to teachers and school administrators. But many of Cross's academic victories are significant. He was always against the sort of teaching that insisted upon minute parsing of every line of Shakespeare. The analytical method of teaching Shakespeare's plays was carried to such extremes that one college class reached the year's end without ever getting past the fourth act of Macbeth...
...though Phil Murray and his largest member union differed in detail, they were agreed on the main point. Summed up slender, serious Victor Reuther, U.A.W. resolutions chairman: "I do not believe that labor should make a blind date...
This story is told so expertly, detail by detail, that the whole unlikely affair seems believable. More than that-it often approximates hard and honest facts about war and about people. In the routine war melodrama it is always an American prisoner who, faint with thirst, scornfully refuses to yield information while an enemy officer drinks his fill and tosses the surplus into the sand. Here, the situation is reversed. Sahara rings dozens of such changes on old formulas, and in their simple way they make more hard sense pictorially than most documentaries...