Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower take the stump in the critical House and Senate election campaigns next year? The question, as it was popped early in the President's press conference last week, was charged with Washington's sensitivity to the new political currents. Ike's answer was imprecise in detail, but it wrapped up clearly, nonetheless, his own deep personal feelings about the presidency...
Frederika organized and personally supervised every detail of The Queen's Fund, a vast charity whose original object was to find food and shelter for the thousands of homeless children wandering lost in her land. Her impassioned pleas for her pet causes seldom fell on deaf ears. "If you could have a vote taken at this minute," said Wisconsin's Senator Wiley after hearing Frederika talk at dinner one night, "you would get the American aid to Greece doubled...
...Kansas City. There Hall, in the presence of Mrs. Heady, shot the boy. At the murder site, FBI agents found a mechanical pencil which Bobby's father had given him. Hall cleared Tom Marsh, still unfound. of any part in the crime. Hall disclosed the most grisly detail of the whole horrifying crime, one of the worst in U.S. history. He said that the grave had been dug and the quicklime bought before the boy was kidnaped...
...bleeding hearts and do-gooders naturally will come up with sob-sister cries [that this is] inhumane and terrifying punishment . . . To all of which we say nuts . . . Speed of punishment, of course, is important. Not so much so, perhaps, as [its] infliction-publicly, brazenly, and in most terrifying detail...
...ragged piles amid "a rubbish of bones and dirt," and "swarms of . . . barefooted, unbreeched little tatterdemalions" ran the muddy lanes like animals. As late as 1890, thousands of children of Jewish and Bohemian immigrants were "working at cigarmaking or needlework as soon as their little fingers could master a detail"-or were living by "thievery or . . . prostitution...