Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First, before he takes one of his rides, he gets a thorough physical examination, including electrocardiogram and X rays. Then, well before blastoff, he begins his preparations for the run. The Fiberglas shell of his helmet is lowered over his head and its cloth neck-shirt zipped shut. Then he wriggles into a blue wool flight suit, puts on thin leather flying gloves and climbs into his seat...
Chief complaints: their previous physicians were not thorough, not specialists, or too expensive. On the average, they expected doctors to be 22 minutes late for appointments. Almost one in five felt that doctors shirked night and Sunday calls...
From Dearborn, Mich, last week sounded the opening horn of the 1956 auto season. Ford Motor Co.'s Lincoln Division parted the curtains on two new models called the Premiere and Capri. In both looks and engineering, they represent a thorough redesign of previous Lincolns. They also represent the beginning of an ambitious campaign. Starting with these two models. Lincoln hopes gradually to edge General Motors' Cadillac from its position as the aristocrat of U.S. cars...
...cluster of reporters stood behind the big off-white barn one afternoon last week and watched while Irvington Roamiss Pear, a purebred Holstein heifer, got a thorough grooming. While they were watching the ceremonious cleanup, a hired man-or what most of the reporters at first took to be a hired man-ambled up to see what was going on. He was dressed in blue slacks, a blue denim sports shirt, white rubber-soled shoes, and a floppy Panama straw hat with its brim set at a rakish angle. In a quick doubletake, the reporters recognized the nation...
...walked briskly from a red jeep station wagon into a modernistic new building in downtown Toledo: the Diagnostic Clinic of the Willys Unit. Local 12, United Auto Workers. So far as Andrews knew, there was nothing wrong with him. That was the point. He was going in for a thorough physical checkup, an exhaustive 1½-hour going over by doctors, with half a dozen or more lab tests to follow. At going rates for Toledo doctors' and medical labs, this would cost anywhere from $150 to $200. Shop Steward Andrews, and the 5,000 other Willys production workers...