Word: thorough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...became ever harder for ordinary people, inharder for ordinary people, indeed even for specialists, to master. At the same time, the importance of specialized knowledge became dramatically clear as the arcana of science, technology, law, economics spread through daily life. TIME had to respond. Gradually, stories became longer, more thorough, more searching...
...professor of history at the University of New Orleans and an editor of Eisenhower's papers, Ambrose is a careful, thorough critic of Ike as citizen, soldier and President. But he is also something of a fan, beguiled by a figure who was "decisive, well disciplined, courageous, dedicated ... intensely curious about people and places, often refreshingly naive, fun-loving-in short a wonderful man to know or be around...
...cork and send bottles back and otherwise make himself obnoxious on that one subject. Another person may take up, say, chocolate, and be able to discourse absurdly for an hour or two on the merits of Kron over Godiva. This kind of snobbery based upon a narrow but thorough trove of expertise is a bit depressing, because it reduces one of the great forms, snobbery, to the status of a mere hobby...
Richard Scifeddine '87 recalled a four-inch-long cockroach he found in the closet of one Yard room. Despite a thorough dousing with various industrial-strength chemicals, the bug scurried away into a crevice...
...traffic entry to the Yard--the gate on Mass, Ave, behind Widener Library. Big trucks couldn't fit through it. And Harvard needs lots of big trucks. So they periodically opened up Johnston Gate--the so--called front door to the Yard--to let them in. But careful and thorough studies revealed that two open gates meant more traffic than one. The answer, they said, was to open only one gate, which of course meant closing Widener gate and opening the Johnston Gate full time...