Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proceed at one's own pace, to stop and savor a passage, to pause and reread or jump ahead and skim. With an audio book, the pace is steady and unyielding; if a moment's distraction causes you to miss a key passage, you can return to the exact place only with difficulty...
...says, "because there were so many R.P.F. soldiers around." Last week a new wave of Hutu refugees began crossing into Zaire from the southwest zone that has been secured by French troops. The French are pulling out Aug. 22, and the Hutu are afraid the R.P.F. is preparing to exact vengeance; relief officials fear a second mass exodus...
...Moumtzis, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. "The whole country is coming out of its borders." Unless the refugees can be persuaded to return, to harvest the crops now rotting in the fields and rebuild the schools and hospitals out of the rubble, disease and starvation will exact a toll that even the most savage soldiers could...
Less self-evident than their prowess was the exact significance of the American victory. "They showed the world!" suggests the justifiably proud U.S. coach, Walter Mientka, a math professor at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln...
...statement suggests the situation is worse than most Korea watchers suspected, says TIME's State Department correspondent, J.F.O. McAllister. So far it has been widely believed that the country had enough plutonium to build one or two bombs, but no one in the U.S. intelligence community had an exact number. "The number five is even more than the hawks have suggested, at least publicly," McAllister says...