Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unhealthy as the presence in some Houses of detached Masters. President Bok's move to regulate more closely House Masterships should receive the support of everyone within the University community, and those who have served as Masters for more than five years should voluntarily participate in a thorough-going review of their positions...
...Attorney General Richard Kleindienst pledged that the Justice Department's investigation of the Watergate case would be "the most extensive, thorough and comprehensive investigation since the assassination of President Kennedy . . . No credible, fair-minded person is going to be able to say that we whitewashed or dragged our feet on it." In fact, five months later only seven men had been brought to trial as a result of that investigation-the five directly involved in the break-in on June 17, plus a low-level White House consultant and a former White House staffer. Until recently, top officials...
Cooperate. Reports TIME's Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter, who has been keeping a watch on the CIA: "For the first time since its founding the CIA is undergoing a thorough shakeup of personnel and redirection of mission. The two main targets of U.S. intelligence activities continue to be the Soviet Union and China. But a rapidly developing détente with those countries has created different demands on the intelligence establishment. Along with traditional estimates of the missile and military capabilities of Communist countries, the White House is insisting on a new emphasis on assessments of their political...
...combination of artfulness and amorality as Camille. She has an easy, unforced, energetic sexuality, but her ruthlessness does not seem to suit her. She tries too hard to act it, perhaps because it was never fully there in the script, which is concerned more with gymnastics of plot than thorough characterization. Truffaut's own attitude toward Camille is clearer, but still ambivalent. He treats her with a mingling of savagery and bemused resignation, an attitude that makes finally for a curious but lopsided film...
...never been proved though, that a child with the one extra chromosome cannot, with good care and an education as good and thorough as that afforded normal children, develop into a happy and productive member of society. On the contrary, most evidence indicates that child who manages to sneak by the preconceptions, although not of "normal" intelligence is as sensitive, as creative and as loving, or more so, than his or her normal brothers and sisters...