Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...identifying Black September as an arm of Al-Fatah. Other Al-Fatah officials insisted that the "confession" was somehow extorted by Jordan. But last week Israelis were putting out the line that Daud's fedayeen brothers really believed that he made the statements and were waiting to exact vengeance...
Seraph: Those were his exact words...
...probably prepared by now for a feminist rap. But it's obvious, isn't it, what King has done? She has won male privileges for the ladies. Which is as old as Suffragette Reform, half a century old to be exact. And in 1973, that's settling for a sorry second. It's bargaining for equality without questioning the social systems that institutionalize inequality -- rather like to bail a boat on the bottom...
Colson's exact duties were always a mystery to most of the staff, but they were almost solely political. "He worked for the President's re-election full time for four years," says one staff member. Colson secretively turned papers face down and closed his desk drawers when colleagues entered his office, which some of them sarcastically termed "the Office of False Impressions...
...begin to rise dangerously. Fortunately, the earth has some handy mechanisms for carrying heat from the tropics toward the poles. Perhaps a third of this heat is distributed by ocean currents. The rest is transported by movement of the atmosphere. A large portion of this atmospheric heat−the exact percentage is unknown−is picked up from the sea by tropical storms...