Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alexander's thorough endorsement of the U.S. handling of Korea came as a complete surprise to most Britons. Their ignorance testified to the inadequate, and often biased reporting of the Korean war by the British press which, with some exceptions (e.g., the Times, the Economist) gloats over U.S. failures and sloughs off U.S. successes. The British government, too, was partly to blame: it had neglected to keep Britons posted on events in Korea, and had sometimes seemed to be in the dark itself...
...They are arranged in groups of eight in larger enclosures, which are also fenced with double barriers of barbed wire. The large enclosures are traversed by a central barbed-wire runway, which makes it easy for guards to reach any of the smaller pens with tear gas. Constant and thorough searches, and floodlighting at night are expected to prevent the prisoners from cutting the wire and thus assembling in larger groups...
Escaped East Germans have given West German interrogators a thorough picture of the Vopos. Aside from the occasional guarding of Red army arsenals, they have no police duties, but live in old Wehrmacht barracks and train in the art of war. Out in the field they rehearse platoon and company maneuvers, learn to operate heavy machine guns and the "Stalin Organ" (a multi-tubed rocket launcher). They have a naval arm of 10,000 and a fledgling air force. The Volkspolizei is a police force that walks like an army...
However, the entire project involves some very grave, if unavoidable, dangers. The question will arise as to whether the new system and the new methods accompanying it is good, or a necessary evil. Some maintain that its value lies in the more or less thorough acouring of the nation's schools to dig up talent that would in previous years have been left uncovered; others feel that the whole affair has a bad smell about it, but that Harvard must compete as fiercely as anyone else. One of the principal questions facing the administrator and the alumni committeeman as well...
...mark reached, the Corporation will donate an extra $500,000 and the first of the proposed changes in the school will go into effect. A new dean will be chosen to succeed Willard L. Sperry, the faculty will undergo revamped, and the school buildings will undergo a thorough reconditioning...