Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exact timing of the Viet Nam peace announcements leads one to wonder if the world would not benefit from monthly U.S. elections...
...that protected Britain's landed interests, Disraeli switched to a free-trade position. He made another turnabout when, faced with Liberal plans to extend the franchise to the workingman, he steered his own election bill through Parliament. The liberalism of 19th century England was in many respects the exact opposite of 20th century American liberalism; it was essentially laissez-faire. But both Disraeli and Nixon rejected the assumptions of liberalism, then and now: a faith in utilitarian reform, an easy optimism, a hankering for change. Said Disraeli: "In a progressive country change is constant; and the great question...
...campaign appeared to exact a heavier toll from Brandt, 58, than from Barzel, 48. Almost every day, the Chancellor spent mornings at his desk in Bonn; afternoons and evenings he was on his special campaign train, delivering four or five speeches. Then he would get a few hours of sleep as the train chugged back to the capital. At one point, Brandt seemed on the verge of nervous exhaustion; bags drooped under his eyes and the lines deepened in his face. Yet he never lost the magnetism that brought out roars of "Willy, Wil-ly!" from crowds. Toward...
...using any of the Chair Transformations that Samaras made in 1969-70; one cannot sit on a cage of plastic flowers, or a chair of white formica which, halfway, turns into a mess of varicolored wool, or a seat with a five-inch spike rising from its exact center...
...famine. Frank Langella, the husband, is constantly petulant, like a male model who has just had his week's bookings canceled. He is, however, supposed to portray an author, and spends some time looking at slides representing various facets of modern architecture. Dunaway apparently does not comprehend the exact nature of his work, for when he seizes her rudely one night and tries to have his way with her on a table top, she spurns him with a nasty "Why don't you go back to your equations...