Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the most startling charge in the booklet is that "the Pentagon's strategic plans focus on striking the first, pre-emptive blow" in a nuclear war. The exact opposite is true. This assertion is followed by the claim that the U.S. wants to "evade destructive retaliation" by fighting a "limited nuclear war in Europe." Soviet military capabilities, on the other hand, are described as "of a strictly defensive nature." No one who knows the true military statistics will take the Soviet pamphlet seriously, but that is beside the point. The purpose is to deceive the unknowing...
...Kris Haines would have scored the winning touchdown, except Haines slipped. Kris remembers: "We went back into the huddle with two seconds to go, and Joe said, 'Don't worry, you can do it.' He gave me that little half-smile of his and called the exact same play again, right on the money for the touchdown." The final score was 35-34. Joe was ready for the pros...
...Journalism techniques to add flavor to his descriptions. From every party and intimate conversation, every private meeting and public confrontation, come long, laborious, detailed quotes. Was Fromson wearing a Dick Tracy-style tape recorder-wristwatch--when, for instance, he challenged his boss on arms sales and got this (exact) reply...
Those, of course, were not the exact words used by Ronald Reagan as he dismissed Richard Allen as his National Security Adviser during a 25-min. meeting in the Oval Office last week. Still the President's basic message may have sounded very much that way to an embittered Allen, as the man at the top confirmed what some of his aides had been deliberately leaking to reporters for weeks: Allen was out, in the most important personnel change of the Administration's first year...
...accidental drowning?" Said Zaki: "I may have said something close to this, but not at all this." The grilling continued. "Doctor, do you know how Jimmy Payne died?" "He died as a result of asphyxia." "Do you know what caused that?" "I have not been able to establish the exact mechanism for that." Zaki conceded that Payne could conceivably have drowned, but he also insisted that bruises on the body and a lack of water in the lungs made it unlikely...