Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...written as an Esquire piece, Novelist (Home from the Hill) William Humphrey encourages the reader to savor the eccentricities of both men and fish. His characters include an admiral whose refusal to clutter his memory with such matters as his children's names enables him to recall the exact conditions (water temperature, wind direction, barometric pressure, tackle, fly, etc.) under which he killed every salmon for 42 years. Another is a man called Holloway, who more than adequately compensates for his regular failure on the stream with success pursuing an array of clean-run salmon widows. A tantalizingly small...
Peterson, who had not been informed about the exact amount of the increase until last night, said he was pleased that the increase did not go above $200. "It fortunately coincided with our guess," he said...
...pessimism is the deep distrust with which the U.S. and the Soviet Union view each other's proposals. The U.S. plan contemplates a comprehensive limit on both offensive and defensive weaponry. It calls for a numerical limit of about 1,900 delivery vehicles for each side. The exact mix within that limit would be left to each power to decide. Within the quantitative limit, each side could make a number of qualitative improvements on existing weapons systems...
Reardon called him the next week and asked him back, and Davis agreed. Reardon could not be reached last night for comment on the exact content of his remarks to Davis. A few days later, Davis wrote asking that his name be withdrawn...
...decades -nearly every young English lord on the grand tour would, as a matter of course, have some virtuoso paint his portrait with an ancient bust or two in the background, along with some emblematic columns. But every building and vista in Ingres' Roman portraits was specific and exact. Madame Guillon-Lethière and her son rise against a background of the Spanish Steps, not like personages in a theater of antiquity, but as people confidently occupying space in a real landscape. Civil Engineer Charles Francois Mallet poses by the Tiber as if he were heir...