Word: innermost
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There are still a lot of people in city planning and engineering who are glad that Hastert spoke their innermost thoughts. "They should just move the whole city to higher ground," says UCLA's Stewart. "There's nothing you can do about the fundamental problem, which is that it's 9 ft. [on average] below sea level." Of course, Venice is also ever threatened by water, but nobody suggests just letting it sink. Postdisaster reconstruction is therefore likely to focus on strengthening the levees, but some experts in the field see that as a losing proposition in the long term...
When archaeologist Howard Carter discovered King Tut's tomb in 1922, he found the mummy in an elaborate coffin cradled in a red quartzite sarcophagus. When Carter's team tried to remove the mummy, they found that it had become stuck to the innermost coffin. Unfortunately, their solution was to cut out the mummy, which damaged it extensively. The CT scans enabled scientists to distinguish that damage from injuries Tut suffered when he was alive...
...after day, over the course of the film’s relentless two hours and 35 minutes, life in the bunker becomes a hypnotic, if horrific, mix. One after another of the innermost members of Hitler’s circle defy and abandon him. He mentally and physically deteriorates further and further (until when asking a confidante how to shoot himself, he is told he should take cyanide as well, lest his violently tremoring hand not be up to the task...
...talking, communications were always open with Letta." Letta has an official Cabinet title: Undersecretary to the Prime Minister with Oversight on Intelligence Operations. But he is much more than that. The former newspaper editor is Berlusconi's sounding board and strategist, helping the Milanese media mogul navigate Rome's innermost circles of influence. Their partnership dates back to the mid-1980s when Berlusconi hired Letta - already a Christian Democratic power broker - as the point man in Rome for his Fininvest holding corporation. During Berlusconi's eight-month stint as Prime Minister in 1994, Letta joined his political staff...
...heat and tension of the War Britons came to know King George and Queen Mary in their innermost qualities of heart. Never since then has the Crown been narrowly identified with any class- whereas Queen Victoria was conquering middle-class and King Edward was almost dilettante Mayfair...