Word: thorough
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Enjoyed your Dec. 23 article, "Break Up the Joint Chiefs." I feel that the military situation would be enhanced greatly if this were done. As a starter, the Pentagon should conduct a thorough study of the German World War II Armed Forces Supreme Command. They might find many fertile ideas...
...matted shut by makeup that realistically puffs, thickens and distorts his entire head to a sub-Neanderthal bestiality), and it seems a shocking breach of manners when Esmeralda, Quasimodo's barefooted gypsy love (amiably played by Gina Lollobrigida), recoils at sight of him. Actor Quinn has done too thorough a job of making his monster human...
...often feuded with McCloskey in the past, want the Democratic morning News (long known to Philadelphians as "The Dirty News")? Why had the Democratic Party's longtime National Treasurer Matt McCloskey capitulated? Though neither the civic-minded Inquirer (circ. 609,350) nor Robert McLean's quietly thorough afternoon Bulletin (circ. 718,007) paid more than cursory attention to the sale, the answers seemed clear enough. Hard-headed Contractor McCloskey, who had pumped some $5,000,000 into the News in his three years of ownership, was unable to resist Annenberg's offer to buy the rising paper...
...hope that one fine day a summit meeting will melt Russian suspicions of the West and bring about a lasting thaw in the cold war. Last week Russian Expert George Frost Kennan, 53, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, longtime favorite foreign-relations philosopher of U.S. liberal Democrats, did a thorough demolition job on the summit-meeting idea. Currently a visiting professor at Oxford University, Kennan argued in a speech broadcast by the BBC that summit meetings with the Russians are doomed in advance to failure. Reason: Soviet leaders are impervious to reasonable argument...
Safety First. The high cost of Shippingport is due greatly to the need to test several versions of similar equipment to find out which is best for commercial power production. But for the AEC and dozens of private subcontractors that built it, Shippingport will provide the first really thorough investigation of nuclear plant safety-the main drawback so far to production for profit...