Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more...
Bowersock, an expert on classical history, said he told the court during his three hours on the witness stand that the film was historically accurate. "I'm not arguing that it's a great movie, but as far as its historical side is concerned, it is exact," he said...
...specializes in conning his friends, trading his superb drumming talent for money and favors. Unhappy with life as a studio musician, he buys a motorcycle in order to sell records to shops in Kingston. When Mafia hoods steal his bike, then beat him, Horse decides it's time to exact revenge from rich Mr. Big, who happens to have a beautiful daughter named Sunshine. It's all very silly, of course, and it concludes with the same moral as any Robin Hood fable...
When all the prodding and poking are done, the patient's spine will be Xrayed. If this does not reveal the exact nature of the problem, the physician may turn to a more complex radiological examination...
...while the exact situation may be different, the effect is still the same: Frank B. Freidel, Warren Professor of American History, said earlier this spring that he was retiring early to become the Bullitt Professor of American history at the University of Washington in Seattle...