Word: details
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maneuvers foresaw a successful enemy landing in neutral Eire. The invading "Hessians" then supposedly attacked Ulster, aiming for an imaginary secret munitions plant in Belfast. Besides testing both invaders and defenders on tactics, the games were intended to exercise the armies' logistical services: kitchens, ammunition details, supply corps, ambulance units. Actual battle conditions were feigned in every detail, right down to fifth columnists who lent boats to the invaders so that they might cross the huge inland lake, Lough Neagh, and, though seasick, encircle the bungling defenders...
...Revolution, and Peace) answers an important question: Why did British labor stand solidly behind its Government while French labor was riddled with disloyalty? His answer: British labor held firmly for reform and against revolution in a 20-year struggle with the Communists, which Author Brand documents in great detail...
What Chances? Thus, with every detail worked out, even to the designation of the trees behind which broadcasters should crouch, the veteran German Army took on its hugest job. Though bigger potential armies (10,000,000 Russians, 9,000,000 Germans) had never fought on a bigger potential front, the weathered Germans began fighting Russia just as they had opened against all the other opponents, with apparent calm, with obvious savvy...
These dispositions, which could be used two ways, were supplemented by duplex tactics. To the minimal detail, the German troops knew what to do on the offense, what on defense; for in most cases the tasks were identical, though differently applied, the equipment identical, though differently used...
...Probably the most useful tool for research since the discovery of the microscope" was described in detail last week by Dr. Joseph G. Hamilton of the University of California. The tool he referred to is the use of radioactive elements, and his comparison was apt. Whereas the microscope makes visible aspects of living tissue which cannot be seen with the naked eye, the use of radioactive elements as tracers makes it possible to learn what becomes of elements taken into a living organism as food, to study the intricate mechanics of metabolism in living plants and animals...