Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...artillery was, to be sure, directed by modern U.S.-made counterbattery radar, which artfully tracked the trajectory of Hizballah's Katyusha rockets raining onto the soil of northern Israel and spotted the exact place in Lebanon from which they had been fired. But in this case, by the time the Israelis had aimed their guns and let fly from less than six miles away, the Shi'ite guerrillas and the Katyusha launcher had gone. Instead the shells slammed down across the area and exploded inside the compound of a battalion of Fijian peacekeepers, where more than 600 refugees had been...
...nationalism, first developed in fighting the Americans forty-five years ago, still lingering vividly in people's psychological mind-sets, it would make perfect sense for North Korea, if things really went that bad, to place its last bet on extreme methods and launch (or continue, to be exact) an aggressive assault at all costs. Since the country's crippled economy would let down its people and make them starve anyway, why not just mess up everything and see what happens...
Henry David Thoreau went off to live in a cabin he built himself. But while he was there, he studied the classics and complicated literature; he conducted elaborate observations of classified plants, herbs and trees, completed many journals. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said of Thoreau, he knew the exact date when each plant within 30 miles of Concord would blossom. And he remained close to his family and friends. In the woods he became more adult...
...them directly, with a loaded brush, and they show an extreme sensitivity to atmosphere. Their light is clear and mild, and under it each plane in the jumble of Roman roofs and walls becomes part of a coherent spatial whole that delights your eye; nobody has ever rendered the exact effect of sunlight on stucco more beguilingly than Corot when young...
Berry said he will continue in both positions for several weeks until the transition is made. He is not yet aware of the exact details of his new position at Disney but will be meeting with Disney executives next week...