Word: precisionism
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Everyone could. The suspicious, humorless Soviet crews arrived in France festooned with "secret" instruments (i.e., stopwatches, portable altimeters, audio-timers that would sound a warning buzz in time to pull the ripcord, safety devices for opening chutes automatically at minimum altitude). They brought along three political tutors: an army colonel...
Increasing Impatience. After half an hour of back-and-forth before the committee, Arkansas' Democrat William Fulbright peered at "Beedle" Smith and asked: "Look here, General, speaking as an official of the Republican Administration, which do you prefer, the Richards amendment or this?" With soldierly precision Smith replied: "There...
Perhaps it will help relationships." But the Jolly Waterman's vodka went unpoured. The Russians billeted there objected to the long hike to the Thames, and all moved in with the Pearces, who promptly left a note for the milkman to start delivering 40 pts. a day. At the...
Last week, as nearly 9,000 Rotarians gathered in Seattle for the 45th annual convention of the world's largest service club, a back or two was certainly slapped. Total strangers called each other by their first names without let or hindrance. But the names were called in accents...
He literally addresses the ball. "Come on, little ball," he will mutter. "Now git up there on the green like ah say." Snead lacks Hogan's machine-tool precision, but he is as durable as Sarazen, as handy with the irons as Byron Nelson, and he outdrives Bobby Jones...