Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...policemen were implicated in a burglary ring, had the police of Des Moines been so scandalized. "It's unbelievable," said City Manager Tom Chenoweth. "I've never seen anything like it." The Police Burial & Protective Association issued a statement of repudiation. The police chief promised a thorough shakeup and dismissed three offending policemen...
THOUGH SIZER brings to his work thorough knowledge of the political problems involved in educational reform, he ignores some of their consequences. He hopes that collegia will give students a true understanding of society. But he doesn't explain how he will get government funding for a kind of "social studies" that has never before been allowed in public schools...
Judge Sirica has handled himself extraordinarily well in this foul corner. With a compromised investigation, a tepid prosecution and deluded defendants pleading guilty and seeking a bizarre martyrdom, the chances of a thorough airing of what and who was involved in Watergate seemed small. Now, perhaps, Sirica will be successful in ventilating the mess at least partially...
Wounded Knee had become a kind of trap, particularly for television. It was obviously a major event that demanded thorough coverage. AIM leaders were so successful in getting their side of the story across, and so enthralled by the attention they were receiving, that they seemed willing to prolong the deadlock for the sake of still more publicity. Most newsmen watched helplessly as the thin line between covering and creating news wavered...
...They didn't tell me how it should look," Stubbins says, "but they gave us a thorough program and explicit objectives. We never considered an above ground building. We didn't want to change the Yard that much, and there's really no place to put an above ground building unless the President's House is removed. If that's removed, well then that's another ballpark...