Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supposed to have spent a large part of his life preparing for the Secretaryship of the U.S. State Department, John Foster Dulles has made a surprisingly large number of blunders. Since his appointment in January, 1953, Dulles has probably done a more thorough job of lowering U.S. prestige and power than any Secretary of State in the recent past...
...scrubdown in the tissue bank's underground operating room was even more thorough than is needed for live surgery, for contamination of tissue can make the bank's operations worse than useless. At 2:05 p.m., Dr. Hyatt, two assistant surgeons, a nurse and five specially trained medical corpsmen began excision of parts of the first body. The surgeons removed long sections of both ascending and descending aorta. With a dermatome they took skin, only 15/1,000 of an inch thick, from the trunk and legs. Next came fascia (connective tissue) from the thighs. They also took pelvic...
...winning team in the Triangulars--and the team that represents the best in the tradition of Harvard debating--should exhibit, the instructions continue, "thorough knowledge of the subject, logical sequence, skill in selecting and presenting evidence, and power in rebuttal." These are the skills that Roosevelt saw as hypocrisy and that more conventional people call worthwhile
...Administration was ready to drop an optimistic other shoe for the benefit of airpower alarmists last week, there was no such confident posture on an equally important question: Has the time come for a new look in foreign aid? For weeks there has been talk that a thorough review of U.S. assistance abroad was in the offing with stress on two problems: 1) How broad shall economic aid? and 2) How will it be distributed? Congress has shown a willingness to mark time on 1957 foreign-aid appropriations until the review is completed...
...House and Senate leaders to his White House study for a two-hour discussion with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Instead of a long-range program, the men from Capitol Hill got an alternative: approve a flexible, $4.9 billion 1957 program now; after that undertake a more thorough joint executive-congressional study...