Word: precisionism
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The win, accomplished with the usual precision, made the statistics for Harvard's last three matches extraordinarily impressive. Seven Harvard players won their best-of-five-game matches 3-0. Lou Williams dropped one game to Jon Gruber in the number three match; Alan Terrell beat Wayne Wilner at number...
The pallbearers, their white-gloved hands moving in careful precision folded to a tight triangle the flag that had covered Kennedy's coffin for two days. Jackie took it and, hugging it to her breast, took a taper and lighted a blue flame at the foot of the grave...
Blurred Nature. Gossipy as a hen, he makes cutting remarks about people who pass the table and then hails them aloud, saying, "You absolutely sweet and adorable man," or "Hello, you sweet son of a bitch." He mimics people with devastating and quite humorous precision. More often, however, he carps...
Sometimes the author inserts a single, striking philosophic insight into a narrative passage. Writing of his love for foreign cities, he asks "and how came it that pleasure is so intertwined, so at home with Necessity?" Describing a mosque, he "sensed with deep joy the fusion of two great qualities...
Executing plays with the precision and punch that forced Dartmouth to yield two weeks ago, Mike Bassett took Harvard 66 yards in 10 plays for a touchdown late in the first period. Poe, Grant, and Bill Grana all contributed solid running, but it was a 20-yard streak by Bassett...