Word: thorough
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John T. Batura, New York City fireman, his wife Anna and their two youngsters, Barbara, 5, and Richard, 4, marched into The Bronx's Montefiore Hospital for thorough examinations last week. Nurses and doctors made detailed case histories of all the ailments the Baturas have ever had, gave them top-to-toe physical tests. Later, a psychiatric social worker gave them a going-over. None of the Baturas was ill, but they were making U.S. medical history...
...America's Creeping Revolution," this book is a vitriolic attack on "America's Fabians"--i.e. F.D.R., the Democratic Party, organized labor, and the "holdes of Socialist doctrinaires" who run the country. Flynn praises the Un-American Activities Committee as "a monument to vision and patriotism." The book is a thorough presentation of the C.C.G. opinion, and the organization plans to put it in every fifth American home. To date, over seven hundred thousand copies have been distributed to legislators, public libraries, schools, and "top-level opinion-molding individuals...
...employee, could fix it up so that he would not have to go back to Fort Leonard Wood. His family visited him en masse, brought him forbidden foods. Stanley asked other visitors for candy. Most of the time he lay back, unsmiling but unworried. Ahead of him was a thorough physical and psychiatric examination...
Other states, realizing how important inspection can be, have much better systems. New Jersey, for example, has built special testing garages staffed by state police and equipped for tough and thorough check-ups. There is no favoritism and no laziness in New Jersey; if something is wrong with a car, it does not pass. Illinois has a similar system. In both states these inspections have cut effectively into the accident rate. Mechanical failures can be a prime cause of auto accidents; Massachusetts is only paying lip service to the job of preventing such failure...
Special awards went to ABC for "the network's courageous stand in resisting organized pressure" during the Gypsy Rose Lee-Red Channels controversy (TIME, Sept. 25), and to the Providence Journal for a "most exacting, thorough and readable checkup of broadcasts by Walter Winchell, Drew Pearson and Fulton Lewis Jr.," which concluded that they were either inaccurate, misleading or inclined to emotionalism...