Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frighteningly vivid picture of what a government-controlled or government-pressured press would become. At several major universities--Berkeley, the University of Texas, the University of Florida--and at countless smaller institutions, regents have imposed strict censorship over college newspapers, using financial control of the papers' operations to exact editorial compromises. At Berkeley, the California regents cracked down when The Daily Californian endorsed a political rally which evolved into a small-scale riot; at Texas, the regents--who had never been fond of The Daily Texan's antiwar editorials--tightened the purse-strings when the paper exposed a misappropriation...
...ambassador, he pleaded eloquently against any allied invasion of Laos; back in Washington in early 1971, he argued the case for the South Vietnamese invasion of Laos. Once, when he had stated a point with great conviction, he was reminded by a reporter that he had argued the exact opposite with equal persuasiveness a few months earlier. He paused for a moment, smiled and lifted a finger to his lips: "Shhhh...
...more. In an uncharacteristic burst of zeal, Belgian customs officials have lately taken to strict enforcement of the fiendishly exact regulations drawn up by the Belgian government and the EEC, concerning the quality of ingredients in food and beverage imports, something they seldom did in the days before Britain entered the EEC. Ronald Davidson, owner of Osborne House, has pleaded that the pork pies fit into the allowed category of pate en croute, that his sausages are really boudin blanc, and that Rose's Lime Juice is a permissible fruit extract. But the continental customs men-to whom...
...landscape was always painstakingly drawn from real life. They used magnifying glasses to paint weeds properly; they waited patiently year after year for the return of the apple blossoms to complete a single canvas; they would spend nights painting by a small candle in order to capture the exact effect of moonlight on a certain flower...
...bring up in 1973. This little prince of prissiness, this walking morality play on behalf of hanging tight and doing somebody else's thing. "Duty required me to do as I did." The cry, pure as the adolescent uttering it, sounds across the years-from 1889, to be exact-measuring by sheer alienation the distance of America present from America past...