Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Suez crisis, from its genesis in July through its present monstrous condition, has been a thorough moil of wrongheadedness on all sides. Egypt is breaching its agreement, the U.S. in insisting on doing nothing, and now Great Britain, France, and Israel in doing the wrong thing have all added their bits. But the passing of moral judgment in hindsight does not solve the problem...
...paradox arises here, to which the Hygiene Department's 1953-54 annual report called attention: "Unfortunately those students who require lengthy treatment are the ones most apt to provide the psychiatrist with a more thorough understanding of the psychological difficulties which beset students' lives...
...University's increasingly thorough crack-down on student parking was linked last night to "huge pressure from the City of Cambridge in the area of building codes" by Student Council president Edward M. Abramson...
Prior to a boxing match, both fighters are obliged to undergo a thorough physical examination. With the health question such an important issue of the current presidential campaign, why shouldn't both presidential candidates give the public a report on their physical condition ? It is entirely possible that Adlai is suffering from a hangnail or fallen arches, unknown to the public. Just how healthy is Adlai anyhow? I, for one, would like to know...
From Maurice Samuels acquaintance with Jewish culture it is not so obvious, as it is to Toynbee, that a term like fossil can be/applied to the Jewish people. This was the starting point for a thorough investigation of Toynbee's use of the term. Mr. Samuels documents a case against Toynbee showing the author's unintelligibility in key areas, his innaccuracies as to historical fact, and his seemingly willful distortions in trying to change the facts rather than his theories...