Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behind the scenes, but his techniques were soon noticed. Soviet security police and a new Hungarian force, called the "R troops," began picking up more young Hungarians. Anyone over 14 years of age was a potential victim. They were taken to the large Vermezoe subway station, where an army detail of 120 men drove off frantic parents. Below ground the youths, boys and girls, were herded into boxcars which were moved out in the dead of night. A train drawing 24 sealed wagons was seen heading east one morning...
...excerpt also describes in greater detail than Genesis the terrible plagues that were visited on Pharaoh for taking Sarah. "That night the Most High God sent a pestilential wind to afflict him and all his household, a wind that was evil. And it smote him and all his house and he could not come near her nor did he know her." After two years of this, according to the scroll, not even Sarah's marvelous beauty could sustain the Pharaoh. He restored her to Abraham and sent them both out of Egypt "exceedingly rich in cattle and also...
Bucking Airplane. Air Force authorities say that they know pretty well what happened, but that they cannot give much detail without disclosing precious information about the X-2's behavior and design. The broad facts, however, are that both pilot and ship performed far too well. Captain Apt had been told not to watch his machmeter, the common speed-measuring instrument. His accelerometer, the key speed instrument in this case, could not be read directly in miles per hour. So, when he reached peak speed, he probably did not know how fast he was going. After his engine...
...oratory now is behind us--even the get-out-the-vote pleas, surest sign that the campaign is over. The record of Eisenhower's four years in Washington has been painted in vivid detail by the party hucksters, and both good and bad images of the candidates have been fully articulated. But one aspect of the voting picture that seems to be missing is a clear public understanding of what a Stevenson Administration would mean in terms of policies and personnel...
...fact that Hals had more than an eagle eye for detail and a bold, slashing technique is shown by his Portrait of a Woman (opposite), a new acquisition of the St. Louis City Art Museum. An outstanding example of Hals's last, or "black," period, it was painted about 1648, when Hals was nearly 70 and had modified his earlier bravura style in favor of a deeper maturity and more finely modeled values. Hals still gave the wealthy young housewife's finery its due, from dangling earrings to her triangular, diaphanous white fichu primly pinned with a golden...