Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Crimson the luxury of a victory on a mediocre performance. No love lost today: in the Lions's (4-4 Ivy) 85-63 victory against the Crimson in New York, the home bench acted mighty uncharitably and coach Frank McLaughlin has vowed to beat those doggone creeps (not his exact words by any means...
According to the survey, Carter now leads Senator Edward Kennedy among Democrats by a stunning 34 points, 62% to 28%, almost the exact reverse of the situation last August. When independent voters, who can take part in some Democratic primaries, are added to the total, Carter's advantage widens...
Every athlete feels the exact instant of no return: the body is then irrevocably committed; it moves with a concentration so fierce as to be almost abstract. Governments rarely achieve such purity of action. Nonetheless, by last week the U.S. had lumberingly launched the great weight of its foreign policy well past the point of second thoughts, on a course aimed at a boycott of the Moscow Summer Olympics. It is a difficult maneuver; it could end by destroying the modern Olympic Games...
Although the swimmers and coaches remained in the dark as to the exact score, they easily sensed the excitement of a meet which saw two ties and at last six changes of the lead...
...exact nature of Carter's commitment was deliberately left unclear. The U.S. is not in a position to send troops into the country, but it could help out with air and sea power. One congressional leader privy to White House thinking said: "We feel that we have a stake in Yugoslavia's continued position of relative independence, as a buffer between the dominated satellites and the West. We are at some pains to ensure that the Russians not seize on the illness of Tito in he mistaken belief that Yugoslavia is not completely stable...