Word: details
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four wartime sessions in Parliament he has painstakingly and in great detail laid down the wartime record of his Government. But in the chamber which he has so often used as a sounding board, he has not yet stated a national issue to offset the declining popularity of his Government. As the Gallup polls show, his administration, like all other wartime governments, now suffers the usual political reaction to regimentation and control...
Reading the Body. The doctors tell in detail how, given two patients with severe pain over the stomach, they may be able to tell which has a gastric ulcer and which has gall-bladder trouble. The patient with the ulcer is likely to be alert, dark-haired (but with an almost hairless chest), slim, long-jawed (but with delicate facial bones). He is likely to have oblong teeth, long hands, a sharp angle where ribs join the breastbone, "somewhat narrow lips, often down-curving at their angles." The patient with gall-bladder trouble is likely to be phlegmatic, blond...
...memory for detail is photographic. After half an hour in one Swiss village, he reproduced it in a set down to the last lintel and Lederhosen. When he came to the U.S., he flabbergasted David 0. Selznick's representatives by telling them precisely where everything in Manhattan was and how best to get there. And he could scarcely wait to see the police lineup, a treat to which he had been looking forward for years...
...these pictures were perfect in anatomical detail, because 28-year-old Miss Stilwell is one of the top medical artists in the U.S. (there are only about 50 U.S. medical artists, all told...
This postwar program, of course, hasn't been settled on at all-except in generalities. As he had said about the meetings in Teheran and in Cairo, we are still in the generality stage, not in the detail stage, because we are still talking only about principles...