Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group has given more meaning to Brillat-Savarin's statement than the chefs of France. They are the world's gastronomers royal. But they exact from their followers a literally heavy price -in calories and cholesterol. Their creations call for churns of butter, streams of cream and eggs by the dozen. With the late great Chef Fernand Point, they cry with all the fervor of a Richard III, "Du beurre! Donnez-moi du beurre! Toujours du beurre...
...Harvard ski team slushed to a commendable finish in the Can-Ams at rain-soaked Owl's Head, Quebec, last weekend, while its Radcliffe counterparts suffered several mishaps and had a weak finish in the Canadian meet, according to coach Peter Tolnai. Exact results will not be known until later this week when the Canadians publish them...
...power structure of the Soviet Union by use of various symbols, such as who was standing next to whom in what photograph, who received a favorable review in this or that Soviet academic journal, or who accompanied Brezhnev on his Eastern European tour, is not by any means an exact science. But it is a legitimate science, in that the American media recognizes such speculation as worthwhile, and newspapers and the networks allow commentators to ramble on at great length about, what signs they are reading from Moscow. To varying degrees, depending on their importance to the United States during...
Susan S. Lyman '49, chairman of the Radcliffe Board of Trustees, was unavailable yesterday for the exact figure of the award...
President Horner yesterday said the endownment is "substantial," but she said she does not know its exact size...