Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...country-and-western singers. Yet in some states, possession of a few grams can get you put away for years. What does it do to one's immortal soul to puff and wink and look away while about 100,000 other Americans remain locked up for doing the exact same thing? Marijuana prohibition establishes a minimum baseline level of cultural dishonesty that we can never rise above: the President "didn't inhale," heh heh. It's O.K. to drink till you puke, but you mustn't ever smoke the vile weed, heh heh. One of the hardest things a parent...
...rusty a cudgel? Very little, one might suppose, if what they were actually pursuing were such necessities as energy, possibility and self-respect. Anti-Semitism does, however, provide the blacks with a simulacrum of toughness -- of all the people they might hit, the Jews are least likely to exact equal retribution -- and as evidenced on every street corner and schoolyard in the inner city, where real strength feels out of reach, toughness will have...
...fact, every film critic around today began by saying the exact same thing! But, there are a number of tips that any fledgling film commentator needs to know--which I will now provide to you free of charge. Who knows may be if you use them properly enough, you'll be able to replace Stanley Kauffman...
...those who see the experience most often and up close: physicians and nurses. Nuland is a surgeon who also teaches the history of medicine at Yale. He has the rare ability -- like John McPhee exploring a geological fault -- to explain the abstruse in language that can be both meticulously exact and wondrously evocative. In a chapter on cancer, for instance, his description of how the cells operate contains this startling analogy: "In the community of living tissues, the uncontrolled mob of misfits that is cancer behaves like a gang of perpetually wilding adolescents. They are the juvenile delinquents of cellular...
What are the methods the pro-life activists use in advancing their cause? The most common ones are peaceful marches, prayer meetings and candlelight vigils--the exact same methods used by the civil rights movement of the 1950s...