Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year from now, I wouldn't be surprised if we're putting people up on army cots in Memorial Hall," Burris Young, associate dean of Freshmen, said last month. Because the 2.5:1 decision was made without a thorough consideration of its effects on the University as a whole, Harvard's housing problems may continue for some time...
...Scapegrace's editor), this yarn is a thorough, almost scholarly pastiche of Victorian lingo and manners. It fairly reeks of historical authenticity-and of blood-for Flashman, in his early 30s, is still his old bully self, a lucky coward and a genial sadist...
...Nixon on July 6, 1972, in which he had warned that certain White House aides were trying to "mortally wound" the President by interfering with the FBI and the CIA (TIME Aug. 13). To this astonishing assertion, Nixon merely replied: "Pat, you just continue to conduct your aggressive and thorough investigation." Had Gray been surprised by this curious retort? "Frankly," he said, "I expected the President to ask me some questions." Indeed, he waited for two weeks to answer the questions that were never asked, and then, when he heard nothing further from the President, he concluded that...
Eight months later, Gray recalled, Nixon telephoned him to offer encouragement concerning Gray's difficulty in obtaining Senate confirmation as permanent FBI director. What struck Gray as "eerie" about the conversation was the way the President pointedly said: "Pat, remember, I told you to conduct a thorough and aggressive investigation." To Gray, who knew nothing at the time about Nixon's practice of tape-recording his own conversations, it seemed to be some sort of attempt to put the comment on record...
Hide he did not. No other private lawyer has been so combative in the hearings. "He speaks up," said an admiring Washington attorney. "He's had Ervin off on a lot of tangents and byways." A lawyer who is "thorough to an annoying fault," according to one of his partners, Wilson confidently barged into the fray-to sidetrack a questioner, to give his client a chance to gather his resources, and usually in the real hope of making a point or barring the question. Sample exchange after Ervin asked himself a rhetorical question...