Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent months this staff has documented for our Business section some of the most-important stories TIME has carried. They took the lead in highlighting the critical scrap shortage in steel and the critical manpower shortage in copper. They were first to detail the dramatic expansion of American aviation all over the world and the imminence of hourly flights from New York to London. They were among the first to point up the need of meat rationing and coffee rationing and the foolishness of sugar rationing; the end of the aluminum shortage, the approach of the lumber shortage...
...sure, many changes of detail and emphasis have taken place. The course bears small resemblance to its leisurely counterpart of as little as three years ago. The Harvard unit has been among the leaders in conversion to a war-time pace. But all the grimness of purpose and streamlining of subject matter must necessarily be built upon a basic contradiction, and are therefore invalid as a final plan. The man who once left Harvard with a degree in his pocket and gold bars on his shoulders was by training three-quarters a college graduate and one-quarter a trained officer...
...tense interplay between governments last week, details assumed great importance. One such detail was the fact that rifles-not machine guns-were used to fire warning shots over the heads and at the feet of the rioters. Others: no tear gas was used; food was regularly delivered to the prisoners, even when some of them went on a two-day hunger strike...
...book unique ... in the literature of hagiography. No other saint has had so able and indefatigable a Boswell. Never have the small events of a contemplative's daily life been described with such a wealth of intimate detail...
...touchy strategist, popular with his officers but fatally careless of administrative detail, was Joseph Eggleston Johnston, who took over the army Beauregard left. "Small, soldierly and greying, with a certain gamecock jauntiness," Johnston was already smoldering with rage at Jefferson Davis over being placed fourth in a list of full generals. Ceremonious, bad-tempered notes passed back & forth. The Secretary of War, Judah P. Benjamin, maddened Johnston by going over his head in military matters and out-arguing him afterward. At one sore point, Johnston beseeched Benjamin to help "create the belief in the army that I am its commander...