Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thomas E. Dewey last week stepped out in front of the television cameras in Manhattan's barnlike CBS studio 56. At 8 p.m. Dewey began speaking; by 8:02 he had made public a decision that went to the heart of U.S. politics. Said he: "After the most thorough and even painful consideration, I have concluded that the time has come for me to return to private life. I shall not, under any circumstances, be a candidate for any public office this fall...
...Most of the pre-1848 settlers were Sephardic Jews, whose ancestors had lived in Spain or Portugal. In the two decades after Europe's revolutionary tremors of 1848, more than 200,000 European Jews, most of them German-speaking, migrated to the U.S. Their Americanization was rapid and thorough, gave rise to a Reform Judaism that outspokenly rejected the traditional idea of Jewish nationhood...
...determined from the start, however, that Burma's civil war must become something more than a conventional deployment of military force. He could not see it all yet. but in his mind lay the vague shape of a counterrevolution, many-sided, thorough...
...thorough knowledge of French...
While the Midland diggers were proceeding with commendable caution, the relics found at Piltdown (and accepted for years without sufficient tests) had a second and more thorough exposing by Brit ish scientists. Not only the human remains but the animal ones, too, were proved to be fakes. The flint implements found with "Piltdown man" had been stained, and the bone implement had been shaped with a steel knife. The perpetrator of the erudite hoax is still unknown...