Word: precisionism
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This time, in the suburbs of Cairo, the mind lost to the sword, to grenades and automatic rifles and the fleet precision of fanaticism making one of its abrupt, savagely familiar hits upon the world's hope for something better.
The day dawned warm, dry, sunny, a typical October morning in Cairo. In the modern suburb of Nasr City, tank and truck engines were coughing to life as the troops began their final preparations for the big parade: the President, as every soldier knew, demanded nothing less than crisp precision...
The evening's only resuscitative presence is Claudette Colbert. At 78, she seems to have discovered the elixir of agelessness. Her looks are unflawed and her low come-hither voice purrs with enchantment. The precision of Colbert's timing would make a watch blush. Her role is that...
THE SQUAD OF eight Angels marched out of the Red Line car in the Harvard Square station. The leader blew his whistle and they lined up in four rows of two. With their conception of military precision, they marched out of the station and into the street. One on-looker...
The TGV, the Concorde of the rails, was launched last week with appropriate folderol and impressive precision. With several Cabinet ministers aboard, the TGV eased out of Platform M at 2:27 p.m. with none of the customary lurching of cars, growling of springs or grinding of wheels.