Word: details
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...selling his party more than himself, and he undertook to define the differences between Republicans and Democrats in great detail. Taft defined the Republican Party as the party which can handle foreign affairs with realism, reduce Government controls, lower taxes, encourage business enterprise, keep labor happy, but in check, and administer the nation's affairs with a sense of sureness and a minimum of confusion. Taft defined the Democratic Party as the party which, because of its alliance with labor and leftist groups, never knows precisely where it is going, is thus given to fits & starts in foreign affairs...
...shooting three hours later, Tro and three supporters were dead. So was the pregnant wife of the house owner. Another man died later of wounds. A ten-month-old baby and eleven others were wounded. The shooting had lasted long enough for a movie cameraman to record it in detail. Army Chief Genovevo Perez Damera saw the film, denounced the affair as a "monstrous assassination." He ordered Salabarria and several of his followers charged with murder and began a general roundup of Salabarria partisans...
...wife Ethel du Pont were out $15 apiece. They finally turned up at a Long Island traffic court to face the music (after three delays) for speeding in their cars last July, were punished with $15 fines. They pleaded guilty to the speeding charge, but took exception to one detail: they were absolutely not racing each other...
Individual pictures of every house, barn, and building in the Square area followed, from which the small models were designed. They are now painted in detail on three sides, the fourth side not being visible to spectators who file past in the years to come...
Representatives of 16 undergraduate organizations preface fall membership drives with a mass meeting at 7:30 o' clock tonight in Phillips Brooks House where the why and wherefores of college extracurricular activities will be explained in detail to incoming students...