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Word: exactingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...built a 7-ft. by 10-ft. map of the area, complete with blinking lights marking each gravesite, only to have police witnesses give varying locations for five graves. Another witness could not say when he had seen Corona near a grave, though he had earlier given police an exact date. (Corona himself said he was sick in bed when some of the murders were committed.) As the contradictions piled up, Judge Richard Patton repeatedly summoned the lawyers into his chambers to thrash out problems. Patton has done most of the thrashing, citing not only Hawk but each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Mass-Murder Mess | 11/13/1972 | See Source »

...approach this new mode of being: "When we concentrate on a material object, whatever its situation, the very act of attention may lead to our involuntarily sinking into the history of that object. Novices must learn to skim over matter if they want matter to stay at the exact level of the moment. Transparent things, through which the past shines...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Nabokov | 11/9/1972 | See Source »

Nixon appeared to have won the state although the exact margin of victory was not available at press time. GOP Governor District Evans turned back a surprisingly strong challenge by Democrat Albert Rosellini with 54 per cent of the vote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How the People Voted Throughout the Country | 11/8/1972 | See Source »

Headman Decherd refused to predict the exact score of either game, though Jimmy the Greek is offering 21-point spreads in both games. Decherd only frowned and said. "Those guys aren't supposed to be any good, but we'll probably win anyway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crime, Fresh From Win, Face Box Jox | 11/4/1972 | See Source »

...most part, the report tries to specify Harvard's exact position on particular issues. The problem lies in the fact that most of the issues are still diffused, and Harvard is falling back to a role of "co-planner". It doesn't want to make too many initiatives for fear of being accused of pressure politics. This is at once a frustrating and a convenient role, depending on intent. Assuming for the moment that Harvard's intentions are the best--and there can be no doubt that Bok and Daly have brought the University a long was from...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Cambridge in the 70s | 10/21/1972 | See Source »

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