Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seconds, all lights in the house are turned on. Forty seconds later, alarm bells start ringing in the house. Then the computer signals the main gatehouse with a high-frequency beeper, simultaneously printing out on a teletype machine the address and phone number of the endangered home, plus the exact time of the message...
...that point. McCone echoed the protest. Nevertheless, a memorandum circulated two days later by Air Force Major General Edward Lansdale, a counterinsurgency expert attached to McNamara's office, included a mention of a plan for "eliminating" or "liquidating" or otherwise doing Castro in-no one remembers the exact phrase...
...exact role of the Communists in the two incidents is unclear. Last week António Dias Lourenço, editor of the Communist newspaper Avante, denied that the party was behind the República takeover. But there are already signs of a backlash against the Communists in the heavily Catholic north, where gun battles between conservative and left-wing elements have been reported. In addition, troops were called into one village to restore order after a left-wing politician shot his way out of a mob armed with shotguns, whips and hoes...
Wolfe's eye for social foible was mean and exact; his sense of ideas almost nonexistent. He had (and still has) one obsessive theme: the unease of the arrived white rich, the devices by which they assuage guilt, and the hustles wrought on them from below. That was the motif of his last book, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1970). It also supplies the comedy of manners for his new one, The Painted Word, which appeared in Harper's April issue and has now been published in hard cover by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book...
...Apple, she was a little green. She had the blessing of the folks back home in Ketchum, Idaho, a happy disposition and a waiting boy friend. As a "hotdog skier" and sometime soccer player, and with only a year of odd jobs behind her, she did not have the exact skills suited to Manhattan's job market. But her grandfather had been Ernest Hemingway, so she had a well-known name. And though some of the guys in Sun Valley used to call her "Pigpen," she was tall and blonde. Anyway, a girl can dream...