Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korean war. Since war's end. the U.S. has contributed another $2 billion to rehabilitate South Korea and bolster its army. This was not enough for Syngman Rhee, whose mismanaged economy is in trouble and in need of money. His bill, submitted in infinite, frequently faulty detail, asks $471.7 million for U.N. use of land during the Korean...
...subordinates jump when he twitches. Garages filled with gleaming limousines and beaming chauffeurs stand ready to transport him wherever he desires. A private 18-plane air force of multi-engined, red-white-and-blue airplanes is at his disposal. Private secretaries and public-relations men take care of bothersome detail, see to it that Cadillacs, hotel suites, restaurant tables and theater seats are there when and where he wants them. High-salaried assistants smooth his path, greet him wherever he arrives, order his drinks, fetch his newspapers...
...wife and his children, one of them a physician, cared for him with remarkable devotion and detail. At first he was fed liquids through a tube in his nose; later, fluids were poured into his mouth while his nose was held. He got an enema every other day, vitamin injections daily. His limbs were massaged regularly. Day and night for seven years, he was shifted every half hour from one position to another to keep his circulation unimpaired. When, in the second year, he developed an abscess, he was operated on without anesthesia. In the fourth year he was cured...
...facts of her life are not to be found in the canonical books of the New Testament, but in the apocryphal Lost Gospels. The Golden Legend of Jacques de Voragines and other pious legends are filled with detail that Author Keyes draws on. St. Anne's birth, according to these accounts, was miraculously foretold to her mother and father, called by some Mathan and Maria; upon their couch appeared the Hebrew word Anna (grace) written in gold letters. She grew up and married a young man known as Joachim, whose name had an equally propitious meaning-"Preparation...
...fort for a hair party, Mature is reconnoitering the firewater or the colonel's wife (Anne Bancroft). The colonel (Robert Preston) is 'presented as a psycho who would rather chase Red Cloud than Actress Bancroft. Vic is only too happy to take over the home detail. "Animal!" Anne pants at him one night. "Sometimes," Vic complains, "she looks at me as if I was a bear." "H'm," says his sidekick (James Whitmore...