Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...door, though John X noted with annoyance that the nurse had used a key to open the door from the elevator bank to his landing: he was on one of the hospital's most closely supervised floors. Next, like all new patients at Payne Whitney, John got a thorough physical checkup. Meanwhile, the outline of John's case had been discussed at a staff meeting...
Such was the case in Stibnite, Idaho, where the Mayo Foundation's Dr. J. D. Mortensen gave 391 mineworkers and dependents a thorough going-over. No less than 534 unsuspected disorders, ranging from tooth cavities to heart disease and cancer, were found. About half the subjects had two or more medical problems...
...been sensationally murdered about this time, and the Soviet Union was on the verge of a political bloodbath. The instrument of the purge set off by the Kirov assassination was Genrikh Yagoda, a leather-capped roughneck who was then head of NKVD (successor to the Cheka). Yagoda did a thorough job and, in due time, he got his reward: he was charged, like thousands of his victims, with being an enemy of the people, imperialist spy, etc. Yagoda was the third of the great cops, following Felix Dzerzhinsky, the lean, cat-eyed Polish aristocrat, who lies buried in the Kremlin...
Many denominations convene each year; the hardheaded, Bible-centered Lutherans of the Missouri Synod (membership: almost 2,000,000) meet only once in three years, and do a thorough job of it then. Last week they assembled in Houston for ten days of reports and plans...
Citation: "Selfless but self-reliant. Thorough but brilliant. Always ready to serve if others may benefit...