Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name. Then, still fresh and lively, he spent an hour and three-quarters with the press. "The average U.S. citizen believes war is unavoidable," he said. "But come what may, we stand always loyal to the democracies." The U.S., he thought, was a great place, and he told in detail of what he had seen of TVA, Louisiana oilfields and Texas ranches. Of his Washington visit, he said: "I didn't ask for anything. But President Truman on his own initiative ordered a White House official to push Chile's irrigation loan through in the International Bank...
...Corporation made this decision with the 12-page A.V.C. report in front of it which describes in detail the desperate need for such housing. From statements of 1278 of the 2375 married students now at Harvard: 1) 87 percent are veterans, 2) half have had from one to four children, 3) 400 who will not graduate till 1951 (and many not till 1952 or 1953), have tried to get, and still want housing of the type the University is tearing down, 4) 725 pay rents of $50-$125 a month (the Government units are $24 to $35 for three...
American G.I.s were not the only ones to liberate Italy; the British were there too. In his second novel, Briton Alexander Baron (From the City, from the Plough) retells in fresh detail one of World War II fiction's most popular stories: what happens when invading Allied soldiers wash off the grime of battle and go out to meet the enemy's women...
Yard Birds. In Medford, Mass., Tufts College Professor Kenneth D. Roeder, studying insect nerve reactions, sadly reported that a detail of cockroaches supplied by the Army were so lazy that they refused to hop even for science...
...would merely like to point out that Messrs. Poskanzer and Wyant, after branding my original letter "malicious untruth," then proceed to confirm in detail every one of my points...