Word: punctilios
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Brown turns scarlet when sportswriters call him Precision Paul. Nevertheless, it is his passion for punctilio that makes this year's Ohio State team tick like a Swiss watch. In a game, he forbids players to lie down during time out, forbids his water carrier even to come on the field...
...French delegates entered the car, the German leaders rose, stiff with punctilio. Adolf Hitler gave the Nazi salute to each Frenchman in turn. Göring and Raeder raised their batons. Brauchitsch and Keitel gave the military salute, Hess and Ribbentrop the Nazi salute. The Frenchmen returned military salutes. Then Hitler sat down and nodded...
...Navy's top command, with a few exceptions, exemplifies the insulation, compartmented authority, punctilio which make up "the military mind." One of the notable exceptions was onetime Chief of Naval Operations William Daniel Leahy, whom the President last week called in from Puerto Rico, reportedly to help coordinate the confused preliminaries to rearmament. The Army's George Marshall is also exceptional-a brilliant, flexible iconoclast whose war on mental dry rot has done much to stimulate and modernize the service. But even he must placate work with and through traditionalists who outnumber him. Last week the Army-Navy...
Last week, as he has every week since 1938, "Captain" Chan climbed over the side, rowed solemnly ashore, asked with impassive Oriental punctilio for sailing orders. As always, there were none. For the Kwang Yuan there may never be any. "Captain" Chan bowed politely, bent his oars back to his command...
...this sort of rule at B.B.C., Sir John's salary has been about $35,000 annually. As director of Imperial Airways, he will get $50,000. To Imperial, organization under Sir John Reith may well mean the installation top-to-bottom of the rigid quarter-deck punctilio he commanded at B.B.C. As if in anticipation of Sir John's coming, the company last week had in strict training a corps of "flight clerks" for the jobs stewardesses do on U. S. airlines. In trim-cut uniforms they must work 18 hours a day for $25-$30 a week...