Word: factualities
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...soldier as a morally lobotomized professional is a familiar 20th century item. Indeed, pride in professionalism has too often become the true refuge of the scoundrel. Yet Buchheim skillfully dodges these issues by casting his book as documentary, fly-on-the-wall fiction. Its amount of factual authenticity about the 220-ft. submarine and its innards is mesmerizing. Technical data about pressure hulls, diesel engines, electric motors, torpedoes and underwater navigation form a web of fascinating distraction. The incessant diving, ogling of manometers and Papenberg gauges, and the flooding and blowing of ballast tanks run like a litany throughout...
President Bok said last night he signed the message because it involved an academic figure and because it proved factual after he made inquiries...
...Penny writes in her diary, not privy to any of this knowledge in any mere factual way, but already possessing the fullfledged instincts of her feminine heritage: "I will not want to meet Debbie Bitch. Why doesn't Nick realize this? I will hate her. I don't want to share Nick with anyone else in the world...
...some reason, perhaps because of my innate optimism. I envisioned a conclusive and factual account of the February 14-16 National Student Conference Against Racism and the National Student Coalition Against Racism in my first glance at Edmond Hersey's March 5th article "Racism and the Left." Though Mr. Horsey may have meant well, and his statement to me during the conference that he was not speaking to me for the purpose of writing a Crimson article leads me to doubt the sincerity of his good intentions, he failed to capture the essence of the conference, the efforts made...
...proceeds through recurring lamentations on the varieties of human duplicity. For example, the McWhirters say. "No single subject is more obscured by vanity, deceit, falsehood and deliberate fraud than the extremes of human longevity." But they insist that even such cascades of synonyms are intended to be purely factual...