Word: thought-out
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...Ernie Bevin had shouldered his 250-lb. bulk up to the chairmanship of Britain's Trades Union Congress, the top spot in British labor. At high council tables he used plain, blunt, carefully thought-out words and facts like clenched fists to pummel his opponents...
...commission solemnly reported to the Argentine Congress that the U.P., along with the Associated Press, "controls all information and nearly all thoughts spread throughout the world. What La Prensa gives its readers, with the exception of a few editorials, is not the thoughts of La Prensa but the thoughts of the United Press. The thought-out news [articles] manufactured by the United Press ... are the thoughts of bankers, industries and powerful commercial interests. The U.S. people are also under this yoke, and their leaders are threatened by its enmity. That is why Truman has said he has four or five...
Manhattan Lawyer James V. Hayes, himself a onetime assistant U.S. Attorney General, put his finger on the basic trouble with the Government's antitrust policy. It was a "case-by-case approach," he said, following no thought-out long-range policy. It attempted to regulate the enormous U.S. economy of 1950 with a law drafted 60 years ago. "It may result," said Hayes, "in breakups of large enterprises even though it might be socially and economically advisable to maintain them as they...
...robust realism of a modern Bruegel and often the satiric bite of Hieronymus Bosch. His colors might range from the muddy to the garish, and his compositions might tend to be needlessly cluttered, but each painting told a story and usually made it stick. Says Koerner: "Telling a thought-out story is the only way, by God, to inject life into this cadaver of modern...
...scaffold for his rags and flags of dramatic, loosely brushed color to fly from. When he was bad, Evergood was horrid. Some of his most obviously propagandistic work (American Tragedy, Jobs Not Dimes') looked careless-on-purpose-like that of a politician who mispronounces words for effect. But thought-out paintings such as Juju as a Wave (a portrait of his wife-see cut) had a warmth of feeling which confirmed his considerable stature among U.S. contemporaries...