Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announced that her title would be Mrs. Secretary.* Then she settled down to the massive task of learning her job. She works six days a week (with time off every Saturday afternoon for a hairdo at Elizabeth Arden's). Her day begins at 6:30 a.m. with a thorough perusal of the newspapers, and she arrives at the office a little after 9. As a rule, work continues through lunch (invariably cottage cheese or fruit salads), with Mrs. Secretary issuing orders as she eats. It is 7:15 p.m., and often later, before her powder-blue, Government-owned Cadillac...
...through World War II, North Carolinians got some embarrassing news: nearly half the men called to the state draft boards for induction were being turned down as 4-Fs. It was the poorest record in the country. Aroused Tarheels organized a North Carolina Good Health Association, gave themselves a thorough examination and discovered they were in worse shape than they had imagined. Almost one-third of North Carolina's 100 counties were without hospitals, the state stood eighth highest in maternal death rate, tenth in infant mortality, third from the bottom in number of doctors per capita. North Carolina...
...statement said the decision to retain the three men was made by the Executive Committee "after a thorough review of the records of the three men and after hearing the report of a faculty committee which examined their cases...
...Moon ... is not a Communist. He never has been. He never will be. He is an antiCommunist, a liberal, a registered Democrat . . . His book . . . may very well have been favorably reviewed in the Daily Worker. It was well reviewed everywhere, including many papers in the South ... I think a thorough investigation . . . would show him to be politically 'clean' . . . More is at stake than one man's job ... a free press is worth more to all of us than an intimidated press...
...team of Harvard educator's recently recommended a thorough revision of Boston's public school system...