Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing as disloyalty, but it did prove that Lattimore was still on the side of a soft policy that could result only in a Russian victory in Asia. The memorandum paid lip service to the idea that Asiatic Communism must not be appeased, but it was in effect a thorough and detailed program for appeasement...
Though I have the deepest respect for "Pointers," I feel that a more thorough study of the situation will reveal that the nature of Army missions, as compared to Navy missions, and circumstances in which an army officer frequently finds himself, as compared to naval officers ... are the real explanation of why there are more Eisenhowers, Clays and MacArthurs than there are Shermans...
...TIME, however, tries to sift, sort, condense and explain the news by this simple standard: How much effort can an ordinarily educated and intelligent man or woman be expected to use in understanding this story? It's no use saying that 80 million Americans ought to have a thorough grasp of physics by this time next year. Whether they ought to or not, they won't. Until they do, the journalist who wants to communicate anything about physics must continue to explain certain rudiments in terms that readers will understand. A journalist who gives his reader simple...
...that, it was as if Voznesensky had never been. For example, a recently published popular Soviet history book omits his name from a wartime list of Politburo members. George Orwell's "Ministry of Truth," which rewrote history to suit the doctrine of Nineteen Eighty-Four, was not more thorough than the erasers of Voznesensky...
MacLeish's speech followed an address by Miss Clapp in which she stated that a woman's college career must train her to "think realistically about the future." MacLeish added that the fundamental choice between individual freedom and institutional authority could only be made through a thorough understanding of the "fourteen hundred million . . . who are now stirring and moving in the long dream of their history...