Word: precisionism
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His first wartime breakthrough was the invention of RDX (research department explosives) which was much more effective than TNT. After three years of conventional explosives research. Kistiakowsky began his two years of research on the atomic bomb. Next, he said, "we finally understood how to control detonation of explosives as...
Despite the Four Feathers mood that clings to it, Sir Basil Liddell Hart's last work is magisterial. On active duty in World War I, he rose only to the rank of captain in the British army before being gassed in 1916; yet, as his country's foremost...
Muskie's style is inconsistent. He can be very prim, exuding down-East caution and a lawyer's precision as he quibbles over the exact meaning of something that he has said earlier. On more relaxed occasions, he can be candid to the point of naivete and sloppy...
REVENUE SHARING. While Muskie has favored revenue sharing, one news report said that he had shifted his position when he told a gathering of mayors that he did not back Nixon's plan. Muskie's people insist that he has consistently approved the principle of sharing, and that...
But, rather than impose upon the events to give meaning to the lives, Lukas has turned his ten character studies into ten distinct views through a sociological kaleidoscope. Individually each portrait is representative of nothing but itself-the precision and detail with which each life is sketched see to that...