Word: details
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ahead. The decision was entirely Coleman's, and the way he made it-and announced it-was typical of the feisty and independent approach he has taken to the nation's transportation problems since becoming Secretary last March. Coleman never even discussed the Concorde in detail with Ford or his aides. The President was pleased to allow someone else to handle the politically nettlesome question. So anxious was Coleman to keep his report secret that he had arranged to call the President only 20 minutes before the press conference at which he revealed his plan. Ford gave...
...flat tones and almost metronomic cadences, he explained to the jury in minute detail how, among other things, they would be shown film of the bank robbery and hear witnesses who saw a gun-toting girl announce, "This is Tania Hearst." Browning also cited Patty's machine-gunning support of S.L.A. comrades four weeks later at a Los Angeles sporting goods store and a book manuscript prepared by Patty and Emily and William Harris, the only S.L.A. survivors, in which Patty allegedly wrote that she "began to feel sympathy" for the S.L.A. cause and eventually asked to join the group...
Bailey graduated first in his class, despite spending much of his time watching actual trials and running a successful investigative firm servicing local lawyers. During classes he often read in apparent boredom; when his professors tried to tag him with sudden questions, he would smugly answer in minute detail, then go back to his reading. His worst grade, ironically, was on a criminal law exam?but only because he is plagued with a bad case of lefthanders' handwriting and could not finish all his answers. After that debacle, he was permitted to bring a typewriter to all his exams; even...
...alternating diary entries of his hero and heroine crackle with witty detail, mordant intelligence and self-deprecating irony. Neither one is a sentimentalist. Both, in fact, said goodbye to their feelings long ago. That is why the blind, homing instincts of the turtles fascinate them. Unlike humans, the creatures know where they must go and venture without questioning. "The mystery of the turtles," Neaera writes, "and their secret navigation is a magical reality, juice of life in a world gone...
Although they have as yet only agreed to discuss the matter in more detail, White thinks Berger may share some of his feeling that Garrity's decisions should be contested as they now stand, Gleason said...