Word: thorough
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...found that he had a low fever, decided he had contracted a mild virus infection-his first illness, beyond simple colds, since becoming President. He was asked to stay in bed. Eyeing the patient, the doctor also decided that it was time to make him hold still for a thorough physical checkup...
...Philip himself began as a Carmelite, and his first six years in the order were spent in Belgium and Italy. There he had a chance to sort out the culture from the Christianity. On his return to India in 1936, he began a thorough study of Hindu culture and philosophy, found most of it not incompatible with Christian belief. A basic weakness of his own church's missionary work, he concluded, was that it sought to explain religion in terms derived from Plato and Aristotle. To Indians, with no tradition of Western philosophy behind them, this kind of teaching...
...businessmen's votes, especially since consumers didn't seem to care or know enough about the bill to object. To try to justify his turnabout, Harry Truman said that "Fair Trade laws are no cure-all for the problems of small retailers," urged Congress to make a thorough investigation of the whole matter. Since Congress has adjourned, it can't act until after election...
...soon as they knew that isoniazid was safe, the Cornell researchers turned to the Navajos of Arizona to give it a thorough test. With their high susceptibility to TB and wretched living standards, the Indians provide a tragically large number of miliary and meningeal cases. Often, one patient has both forms. The Navajos were eager to help medical research fight the white man's disease which has killed more of them than white man's bullets ever did. Their Tribal Council put up $10,000 toward the project...
...Washington, the State Department in a thorough flap recalled its travel ban and apologized publicly to Lattimore: "Sincere regret over the embarrassment caused..." Said the professor: "This incident...discloses how close we are to...Government-by-informer...The State Department must be taught that a citizen...may not be restrained or deprived of his liberty on the basis of a false and irresponsible statement or the scandalously irresponsible report of a so-called intelligence agency...