Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spiking his debate with partisan references to "vicuña" and "Eisenhower recession," Passman-armed with an impressive amount of detail on the program -got away virtually unchallenged with horrendous buckshot charges. Sample: "The defense support part of this program in all probability has been responsible for more bribery, overpricing, conniving and profit taking on the part of officials and friends of officials in foreign nations than any program ever conceived by the mind...
...them out of hand." And if agreement was reached, added Laborite Jim Callaghan, "we would not seek to overturn it." In the same mood of conciliation, Prime Minister Macmillan noted, "We have of course no special pride of authorship which will make us stick obstinately to this or that detail of the plan. We shall certainly be flexible." Labor did not want to upset the mood by forcing the issue to a vote...
...basement of Cleveland's huge Public Auditorium, vegetarian restaurants were serving the kind of meals preferred by strict Seventh-day Adventists. In the gallery two church workers patiently used sign language to translate the proceedings on the floor for deaf-mute visitors. No detail was left to chance by the Adventists' 48th quadrennial World Conference, a smoothly run, ten-day meeting of more than 1,000 delegates from 90 countries, including such Red nations as Poland and Yugoslavia. During services on Saturday -the Adventist Sabbath-20,000 visitors came to pray or watch...
...tradition of understatement, this may or may not bear reference to the fact that Horatio, Lord Nelson, was a man with one eye, one arm and one idea-to beat the French. The latest and one of the best of the great sailor's biographies logs in scholarly detail the main tacks of a gusty life that carried him to the top of the column in London's Trafalgar Square-not to mention the Nelson monument in Dublin, where James Joyce's hero, mindful of Lady Hamilton, referred to him as "the onehandled adulterer...
...Stuckert's estimates can be attacked in detail, but sociology offers little comfort to white Americans who try to maintain that a single African ancestor, however remote, makes a man Negro. About 60 generations have passed since the heyday of the Roman Empire; so an American of European ancestry is descended from 2 60 (1,152,921,504,606,846,976) ancestors at the time of the Emperor Hadrian. This immense figure is not to be taken literally, but it surely means that people with ancestors who lived in the Roman Empire, including England and part of Germany...