Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...windmill, admitted that he had "lost his head" and shot her. He was given a 40-to-55-year term in the State Penitentiary, but because he was a model prisoner, the governor three times reduced his sentence. Last week, while working on a garbage detail ten days before his release, Prisoner Brown got some news that would make his coming-out party a real success: he was about to become a rich man. The Magnolia Petroleum Co. had run a test well on Brown's New Mexico ranch, had struck oil-1,400 barrels a day. The royalties...
Merk really shines in Westward Movement (162) despite his demand for minute detail on exams, and Schlesinger, Jr. makes his lectures both entertaining and controversial in American Intellectual History...
...teaching logic, Williard Quine shows a good style, but he rarely makes an attempt to dramatize what is at best a dry study. All those who feel that attention to detail is beneath them should keep away from his courses...
...calculated bluntness. Said Douglas MacArthur: turn Chiang Kai-shek's forces on Formosa loose to open a second front on China's mainland. In a letter to Republican Minority Leader Joe Martin, MacArthur wrote bitterly: "My views and recommendations have been submitted to Washington in most complete detail. It seems strangely difficult for some to realize that here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to make their play for global conquest... that here we fight Europe's war with arms while the diplomats there still fight it with words, that if we lose...
Were there other reasons for believing that things had worsened? If there were, the public did not know what Marshall knew, and Marshall was not in a position to go into detail...