Word: details
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adequately and will often ask his questioner if the answer was satisfactory. But he rarely delivers a formal, policy address from a text, and while he has issued a series of brief position papers, he has made little or no effort to lay out his proposed policies in full detail. One reason: he lacks the kind of large professional staff maintained by his opponents from Congress. Still, in his day-to-day campaigning, Carter is at least as specific on the issues as any candidate in the race...
...Hara does manage to capture twentieth century culture in this country. He has an artist's eye for detail: clothing, automobiles, popular music, slang--all are carefully described in his books. And it is for a purpose. When an O'Hara character drives a Buick or adopts dated slang, it tells something about his personality and social standing...
After examining in detail the admissions process and the composition of the class, the group is "still hoping new ideas will come up," John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, chairman of the committee, says, adding that "the Strauch report was so recent I really don't know if we can advance...
...started quietly-a tall (6 ft. 1½ in.), serious man looming over the small, pale young woman, who was demurely dressed in a light grey pantsuit and a peach-colored blouse. Getting Patty to describe her abduction on the night of Feb. 4, 1974, Browning unearthed a fascinating detail: a police car had cruised up alongside the getaway car, but the officer only warned the woman driver, Patricia Soltysik, to turn on her lights...
...composed witness, meeting the questions headon, never saying too much in reply and thus giving the prosecutor a new lead. At one point, Browning took up a line of questioning that seemed to work for Patty rather than against her. He got her to repeat in more detail earlier testimony in which she told how she had been sexually molested by Donald DeFreeze, the self-styled "field marshal" of the S.L.A. who was known as "Cinque." Asked Browning: "Did he pinch one or both of your breasts...