Word: thoroughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bathtubs, Beams. At week's end, the President had one request of his own to make of a caller. After a thorough inspection of the White House, Architect Lorenzo Winslow announced that the building was much worse off than anyone had suspected. It was a wonder that Harry Truman, sitting in his second-story bathtub, hadn't plunged down to the basement. A complete White House repair job would require ripping out all interior walls and beams, replacing everything up to the outer shell. The cost would be about $7,000,000 (just seven times the original estimate...
...time, things began to change around St. Albans. The school kept strictly to its Episcopal curriculum: daily chapel, courses in Christian ethics, sacred studies, and a thorough study of the Old and New Testaments. But the beltings stopped, and no one tried to run away any more. St. Albans doubled in size (351 students), became the top boys' prep school in Washington, where the sons of diplomats and Senators went...
...like putting together a picture puzzle," says Lillio, "yet I wanted to do a thorough job." So he went back to sources like the Middlesex County Court House, City Hall, the Cambridge Historical Society, and Widener Library stacks...
...should the Soviet Union be used as a base? Stalin is even plainer. In one of his basic doctrinal writings, which has been republished in millions of copies, in many languages, right up to the present, he says: ". . . The development of world revolution will be the more rapid and thorough, the more effective the aid rendered by the first Socialist country [Russia] to the workers . . . of all other countries. In what should this aid be expressed? . . . The 'victorious proletariat' of the one country [here he quotes Lenin] . . . after organizing its own Socialist production, should stand up . . . against...
George Marshall had borne up well under the sustained pressure of his big jobs. He did not smoke, drank very little, took good care of himself. But last, summer, he found that he tired easily; he submitted to his first thorough physical checkup since Pearl Harbor. The doctors found cysts in one kidney. An operation would be necessary...