Word: exact
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Andras Hamori is less fun to read, but his imagery is invariably exact, and the moods he maintains are more demanding than Miss Faerstein's. John Morgan's sinuous and complicated poem, "Mississippi," fails unless the reader retraces its rather flat lines several times. It contains a lot of detail unnecessary to its message or tone...
...killing off hive after hive. Moreover, the new males passed their bad blood on to new females, who went on propagating the angry strain. "We thought that when they got acclimated they would become civilized," says Father João Oscar Nedlel, S.J., a Brazilian bee expert, "but the exact opposite has happened...
...Northeastern U.S. or reducing the federal debt. Last week President Johnson dimmed their hopes with a report by a special study team that included Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, Director of the Budget Charles Schultze and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Gardner Ackley; it pointed out that the exact amount of the new revenues would vary with the demand for coins, thus could not be depended upon to meet the needs of any single program. That said, the committee promised to report back on Dec. 1 with concrete recommendations on how to spend the windfall...
...headlights spaced out evenly by expert tailgating. Radio: "Hurricane Betsy is acting up again." Sensation of pleasant tension, smooth-pumping pistons, wiper-rhythm. WARNING SPEED CHECKED BY RADAR. Needle's right on 65. Cops make allowances. "Hey nonny nonny and a Ballantine beer." PAY TOLL AHEAD. Get out EXACT CHANGE. Hands resting lightly on wheel. "You don't believe-we're on the eve-of destruction." LINCOLN...
...thus replaced nearly all of Adlai's aides, the President offered neither explanation for the change nor praise for their past performance. That task fell to Goldberg, who paid graceful tribute to Stevenson's "old guard," adding: "We did not feel we had the right to exact further arduous service from people who had done so much...