Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plutonium is made in a chain-reacting pile, the trickiest, most hair-raising item of industrial equipment. Every interior detail of a pile must be right from the start; after the pile has been in operation, its innards are too radioactive to be tinkered with. The controls must be perfect, too, or the pile will destroy itself with a bang...
What makes a sex maniac? The life and habits of the sex psychopath are discussed in tomorrow's article. The guiles he practices on his victims--often school age girls--and his haunts, habits and mannerisms based on known instances in the city, will be presented in detail...
...Grimson wants to test banthine in detail for another six months. Then, if it still looks good, he will ask the Food & Drug Administration to release it for general...
...head his own twelve-piece band in 1940, Monroe gave up his concert ambitions, trained with a vocal coach for four months to tone his big voice down to dance-hall size. At the same time he mapped out his strategy for winning the public. One important campaign detail: constant caravaning through the hinterlands...
John Ford has avoided cluttering his latest western with any discernible plot. This will please people who enjoy a horse-and-shooting movie for its basic detail, and who hate to see it adulterated with Sex, Skullduggery, or Intrigue. It will bore stiff anyone who is prone to squirm in his seat until something happens...