Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Muzi-Kart's fiber-glass body has been lifted up to display a gleaming, hand-built $4,500 engine that jets the car down the drag strip at 150 m.p.h., a single bucket seat contoured to the exact dimensions of the driver, a tiny two-handled steering mechanism, and an automatic fire-extinguisher system...
They have taken down the 9-ft-high chain-link fence between Panama City's Legislative Palace and the adjacent Canal Zone-a fence that Panamanian newspapers like to compare to the Berlin Wall. In the palace itself they have built a false floor and then erected an exact replica of the U.N. Security Council conference table in New York. The only difference is that the legs are wooden instead of steel. "We don't have any steel industry here," explained the Panamanian official in charge of the affair...
ALMOST all of British intellectual and cultural life, said Steiner, is suffering from a lingering case of "historical fatigue," except perhaps in the field of science. "In the physical and exact sciences British achievements remain staggering. But in the humanities, if you ask where the great philosophical movement is, there is only a long silence. It is an awfully dead period. There have been 40 years of restoring order, sweeping and tidying up what had been all the rampant, unkempt, even outdated collections of philosophical theories. Now everything is clean, in perfect order and ready for bold new departures...
...purpose of this letter is not only to point out what is wrong with your basketball system, but more importantly, what you should do to correct it. The opinions voiced in this letter are completely my own, and do not necessarily reflect the exact thoughts of other basketball-team members, past or present...
...films directed by an American in the last decade. To those who say that art is sacred and should take priority over social health, I have no reply--except to say that I disagree. But opponents of art censorship must--and I believe will--increasingly recognize that total freedom exacts a heavy price in social health. By the same token, supporters of censorship must accept the fact that effective censorship by its nature will exact a certain price in art, and perhaps a considerable one. In these terms, the choice is clear, and my guess is that society's answer...