Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...largest Burley leaf tobacco market in the world, carries on a thriving business in cattle and sheep, and is the home of the University of Kentucky and Transylvania College. Its No. 1 business, nevertheless, is the breed ing, raising, selling and racing of thorough breds (as early as 1782 there were "race paths" around Lexington). Standard-bred trotters and pacers and the American saddle horse are also raised here...
Students rocked buses from side to side and gave trolley cars a thorough going-over, until the police arrived with a new weapon, tear gas bombs. The crowd retaliated with eggs, while eight from their midst were being arrested...
...Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture, and Archibald T. Davison, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, are among nine owners in the Lincoln-Lexington area who will open their houses to a thorough inspection...
...Dodd free -"unharmed and in good spirits," according to Van Fleet's bulletin-11½ hours after the deadline, 78 hours after the abduction. Next day, wearing combat boots, fatigue cap and two pistols in his belt, Dodd was flown to Eighth Army headquarters near Seoul for a thorough chewing-out by General Van Fleet. In a press conference in which he read a statement but could not be questioned, Dodd said that any commitments made were "inconsequential...
...Carlyles have begun to look like a pair of corpses which are constantly being re-exhumed to see which one had the arsenic. The virtue of this new disinterment by Lawrence & Elisabeth Hanson (who did a similar post-mortem on The Four Brontës) is that it is thorough; no one will have much excuse for doing it again...