Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blind, headlong years before 1938, Streit wrote his ideas into a book. Before he was through, he had worked out in careful detail the apparatus of a federal government of democracies (see chart). The executive power under the Streit plan would be held by a board of three men chosen by popular vote and two men chosen by a Senate and a House of Deputies. The Deputies would be elected by popular vote; each country would elect two Senators; countries of over 25 million would be allowed more...
...Navy certificate, even without its stool-pigeon phrase, is still an unfortunate document. The purpose of the certificate is to wood out "persons whose conduct or associations ... cast doubt upon their loyalty." It requires signers to detail their association with any of the Attorney General's 173 organizations, and says that this association "may be considered as establishing reasonable grounds for separation of personnel...
...into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws." In this loose-knit but appealing biography, his son, Victor Slocum, who was 77 when he died last December, retells his father's best stories, adds some new ones and explains in detail just what kind of "schooling" old Captain Slocum...
...many of his classmates had never seen a ship, the crew-cut kid with the square chin was a walking encyclopedia of Navy history, engagements and ships. In dining hall, when first classmen at his table fired questions at him, Sherman always knew the answers- and often in more detail than his seniors. "You're too smart; get under the table," he was ordered, and there he sat, without dinner, taking his hazing. The hazers, rougher than they are these days, sought him out in barracks. They made him stand for an hour at attention holding a heavy book...
...know in detail how destructive the A-bomb is. I know quite well how destructive the H-bomb can be, if it can be built. But I ask you: What good comes from the extravagant and sensational picturing of the horrors of atom warfare? Does this serve the purpose of scaring the rulers of Russia and thereby act as a deterrent to aggression by them? Of course not. Men who are frightened by word pictures do not become the iron rulers of a large part of the earth...