Word: exact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twilight Blindness. The angry Yuan demanded a listing of the exact measures to be taken. Cried a member from Central China: "Nearly all Manchuria and North China have been lost . . . Yet the ever-weakening strength of government troops and their low morale have not even been discussed in Dr. Wong's report." When the Yuan adjourned for the day, 132 legislators were still clamoring to speak...
...with a peculiarly unsatisfied feeling. "Worth A Golden Spoon" misses because it rests on an idea never quite made clear--the idea that a beehive, presented to a railroad employee by his associates, has a peculiar and special meaning to him. I couldn't help feeling that the exact nature of this meaning ought to have been indicated somewhere in the story. My objection to "Episode of a House Remembered" is perhaps the result of my prejudice against pieces that are too strictly concerned with mood...
...them survivors of a rubber-boat disaster at Motome, wearied, embittered, haunted by a premonition of death, snarling about the newcomers and (occasionally) feeling a grudging responsibility for them, nervous, profane, lecherous. Their conversation is recorded with the fidelity of a recording machine. Indeed, it is almost too exact and too tough to be quite accurate...
...attributed his financial success to the fact that he had never been able to hear what a businessman said, and had consequently always demanded exact, written contracts. He even liked to insist poetry, with World War II; and very few professionals succeeded. One who has succeeded is Randall Jarrell, a highly skilled technical sergeant in poetry before he became a sergeant in the Army Air Forces...
Plans have just been completed, and the whole affair will be conducted like a national convention. Keynote speeches will precede the nominating addresses. After these, the actual roll-call will be taken, and nominations considered on the split delegation basis through which every candidate gets the exact number of personal votes cast...