Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Viva Eisenhower!" The route-like virtually everything else in the area, from doorways to rooftops-had been canvassed, scouted, cased and haunted by guards and secret-service agents of all the American republics, including a thorough, unobtrusive U.S. Secret Service detail headed by Spanish-speaking Agent John Campion. Ike rode a good part of the 17 miles standing up in the car, waving and smiling. As the 14-car cavalcade neared the outskirts of the city, the crowds got bigger. Bunched six-deep along the streets, the Panamanians shouted "Viva Eisenhower ! Viva Eisenhower...
...time bluffing and cajoling his way past a discouraging amount of southbound traffic on the single-track line, and especially because the stubborn Confederate conductor of the captured train pursued him so closely on foot, handcar, switching engine and reversed locomotive that there was never time to do a thorough job of sabotage. Captured only ten miles from Chattanooga, Andrews and seven of his men were hanged, and the rest thrown into prison. All of the raiders were awarded the first Congressional Medals of Honor in U.S. history...
...That is how it should be," said the lion. "Enter the decision," he called to the scribe, the most learned marabou. "Put down that it was found, after a discussion and thorough screening, that the special branch for the handling of complaints has proved uncommonly successful. Do your ranks need reinforcement...
...France during World War I. He went to Washington as Assistant Secretary of Commerce in 1935, later earned a reputation as one of the slow-moving ICC's most effective members. His resignation, long sought by the Administration, will pave the way for a younger chairman and thorough overhaul of ICC's creaking machinery...
...excoriation of the University is based upon two invalid assumptions: that discipline of any kind invariably contradicts intellectual freedom and that prestige-consciousness cuts off creativity at the bud. On these assumptions, i.e. urges a thorough revision of present concepts of the University, including fewer papers and the abolition of lectures and exams. To be perfectly consistent in its structure of prestige, i.e.'s ideal university would also have no degrees or any other symbol of competence. Present methods of challenging incompetence are certainly not ideal, but in the present state of society it seems difficult to do without some...