Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offer "The stop, hit and dump," "the blabberin' throw," "the 50-league hot foot," "the fog-rolling contest," "the frisk us thorough," "the Tito-totter balance" "the atom hoard jump," and "the high-hurdle delays...
...Counterpotter. Far from being merely a dry manual, Potter's book is alive with the personalities of real Lifemen. There are men like G. Odoreida, a thorough cad even by Lifemanship standards (to a fellow Lifeman ecstatically in love he would dryly remark: "Well, how is your little caper with Julia going?"). And there are crafty operators like G. Cogg-Willoughby, whose most famous victory came at a weekend party against an egregious hostess-nobbier named P. de Sint, the kind of man who develops a rich, bronze suntan in a matter of hours...
Thompson entered the case at the request of Dean Griswold. The district attorney reported the head injuries were due to an accident. A thorough investigation has been completed, he said; no further action will be taken "unless something more is turned over to the office...
...difficult to learn what is going on in Pusan, the South Korean capital. Censorship imposed by Rhee since his election in August, 1948, has been thorough. Few Koreans want to suffer from the reign of terror which may strike anyone who proclaims anti-Rhee views. Charges of corruption and "dictatorship" are not the only ones which opposition parties are continually throwing at the Rhee faction. The major complaint is that the government is ineffective and its leaders incompetent in solving Korean social and economic problems...
...tutorial was limited to honors candidates. But the General Education Report had made it clear that non-honors men not receiving tutorial, should at least be counselled by a thorough advising system. This never happened...