Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks the North Koreans around the Pusan perimeter had maintained heavy pressure on Lieut. General Walton Walker's line. In spite of intensive and thorough bombing and strafing of supply lines from the air, the Reds were still getting enough to the southern front to hold the initiative. The rate of U.S. buildup inside the Pusan perimeter was so slow that, short of a complete North Korean collapse, Walker had little prospect of launching a decisive offensive...
...perils and problems of the housewife have received little attention from medical researchers (who are mostly men, of course). Last week, meeting in Philadelphia, women doctors of the Medical Women's International Association gave the subject a thorough going-over in a day's discussion of "The Pathology and Hygiene of Housework...
...President was also noting that it was Johnson who was getting the bulk of the brickbats from the public. The Veterans of Foreign Wars had already issued a demand for a thorough Defense Department shake-up (TIME, Sept. 11). Last week, despite an eloquent presidential appeal, the Marine Corps League had gone right ahead to pass a thundering censure of Louis Johnson (see above) and a demand for his resignation. But it had voted down a similar thrust at Dean Acheson...
...Catalogue Virgins." Delegates attacked the problem from both sides. Some threw bricks at free-wheeling artists and some at brake-stomping clerics. They passed resolutions urging the formation of Catholic artists' unions, and more thorough religious training for Catholic art students. They even recommended that "competent authorities update-the artistic culture and taste of the clergy...
...novel confident of finding a simple mixture of sword play and midnight love. Nowadays, as part of the now fashionable pedantry that corrodes everything from highbrow poetry to lowbrow science fiction, the historical novel is often as minutely researched as a Ph.D. thesis. Merchant of the Ruby, a fearsomely thorough drenching in the 15th Century Wars of the Roses, is a prime example. Readers of the Merchant need a refresher course in history, an elaborate diagram of royal genealogy, and a passionate interest in the problem of which English kings were legitimate and which were...