Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special-detail fireman may prowl among the couples at the candle-light supper planned for next Saturday by the Freshman Union Committee...
Tactics v. Strategy. In recent pronouncements on military policy, President Eisenhower had referred to the need for mobile military forces ; reporters asked him to explain in detail how these would operate. Ike refused, saying that there is no military situation that can be predicted in detail. His Administration's aim is to build up indigenous forces in friendly countries and help them in time of trouble by supplying mobile forces, e.g., airlifted Marine units...
...Echelon Job. Producer-Director Fielder Cook gave Patterns just the proper elaboration of office gossip, politics and detail and, as often happens in a soundly built play, all the actors turned in superlative jobs. Top honors went to chunky Ed Begley, one of TV's most valuable utility actors, who brought to his role of a businessman hagridden both by his boss and his ulcer a fine pitch of stubborn and despairing dignity...
...Cornerstone, by Zoe Oldenbourg. A superior historical novel, told with massive detail, about medieval knighthood and knavery (TIME...
...most historical novelists, Author Oldenbourg does not indulge in bloodletting and vices for the sake of the thrill. She has merely held up a mirror to the 13th century so that her readers might know what it was like. Young Haguenier's marriage and romance show in painstaking detail how a young man of good family once lived, wedded and loved. Herbert's story is a chilling indication of what life could be like for serfs and the members of a noble family when the lord was hard, lewd and avaricious. Old Ansiau's pilgrimage, full...