Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evidence of Ike's amazing education about U.S. affairs that he has discussed in detail an extraordinarily large number of issues, and has been a good deal more specific than most political candidates. Some of the issues...
...with a Ciceronian dunque (Now then) and went on to point out what had happened to other nations with which Russia had signed non-aggression pacts. He listed them off-Finland, Poland, Rumania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania-and then, while the Communist benches sat silently, he carefully gave dates and detail of how Russia had later invaded or occupied them...
Lyons himself mainly rubs shoulders with the highly paid, highly skilled workers in his huge plant. No detail escapes his cost-conscious eye. When a foreman built himself a partitioned office for his paper work, Lyons tore it down. "A foreman should be on the floor," he said, "pushing blokes to do things." Added Lyons: "If I let him have his office, he'll soon want a girl to do typing for him. Next it will be another girl to assist the first one; before you knew where you were, you'd have six people in each department...
...prose has lost its lushness and artifice> Spanish precision and plainness have come through. Detail, passivity, indifference, a stoical acceptance of life, patience, an ironical resignation to the peculiar ways of human beings are its Spanish traits. Santayana's psychological powers are hardly less illuminating in his long essays on the Anglo-Saxon and the American characters; he had already lit up the follies of the German mind in his work on Egotism in German Philosophy, a work much consulted during the war against Hitler...
...receivers, two transmitters and connections to ten more' transmitters spotted around the airport. It is also equipped with the newest wrinkle in radar control: the A.S.D.E. (Airport Surface Detection Equipment), which looks not up but down, and displays on its broad scope a living, moving map of every detail on the huge field (4,900 acres...