Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last month Batista's propaganda ministry announced cryptically that Manuel Cardinal Arteaga, 73, Archbishop of Havana and Roman Catholic primate of Cuba, had been injured in a fall in his rooms. That was news that Havana's papers and radio stations would normally have reported in detail, but under censorship they gave only the bare bones of the announcement...
...barnstorming Wagnerian troupe, and after one season in the U.S., was signed up by the Met. Best-known for his memorable Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger and Wotan in Die Walüre, Baritone Schorr shut himself up for hours before singing a new role, to master every histrionic detail...
Meanwhile, Navy Under Secretary Charles Thomas asked Navy departmental heads to report detailed facts on their procurement plans. Some of the admirals replied with vague generalizations. Thomas issued a stern order for precise detail. On the second round, all complied except Admiral Wallin, who, in effect, told Anderson and Thomas to content themselves with broad policy and leave the details to the admirals. Since, as every Pentagonian knows, broad policy is frequently determined by details, Anderson considered that he was getting a well-known form of Pentagon runaround. Wallin was relieved of his command and transferred to the Puget Sound...
...m.p.h., the President was late, and the official welcoming party was confused and missed his arrival. When he finally caught up with the President, Quantico Commandant Lieut. General Clifton B. Gates was blushing like a buck private on the ist sergeant's carpet. "Sorry we gummed up this detail, sir," he said. "It is the first bust we have had." Ike thought it was a fine joke...
...emergency fund to be used in the project, and State Attorney General Ross F. Jones began planning a grandiose attack. Secret agents, some disguised as movie scouts, drifted into Short' Creek. Last month the great "Love-nest raid" began to shape up in all its wondrous detail...