Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories, by John Updike. The skillful young author of Poorhouse Fair and Rabbit, Run captures the exact curve of a handful of small but marvelous human moments...
Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories, by John Updike. The skillful young author of Poorhouse Fair and Rabbit, Run captures the exact curve of a handful of small but marvelous human moments...
...will, Brancusi had made one surprising stipulation in his bequest to the museum: his collection must be shown in an exact replica of his old studio. For five years the museum dragged its feet, and it was not until this month that the public could see the studio reproduced, at last cracks and all. There were his rusting tool's the gleaming Blond Negress, the blocklike figures of the Kiss, various versions of the Comb, all looking like upside-down thunderbolts, and a wooden King of Kings resembling vises piled on top of each other, topped...
...start of a war, say, or a drop in the price of barley-they were likely to include the position of the moon on that day. or the location of a couple of planets. Today, if a scholar studying the clay tablets of ancient Babylon wants to know the exact date of a given event, all he has to do is to calculate the date when the heavenly bodies were in their recorded positions...
...exact his revenge, Kennedy called upon all his powers as President, including legal retribution, economic reprisal, public threats and covert pressures. Most of all, he used his great political skills to arouse popular emotion for his cause. His theater was to be his press conference, which had already been scheduled for the next afternoon. Most Americans, upon scanning the morning headlines, had known that Kennedy planned to criticize U.S. Steel's decision. But what they heard and saw on television was one of the most savage sustained attacks ever launched by a U.S. President against big business...