Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appearance is the exact opposite of the common conception of a hangman; to see him in one of the local pubs drinking his pint of ale, one would think he was a farmer who had come to the village to sell his produce. One of his favorite jokes on meeting a person is to say, "What a lovely neck." I will never forget the shudder that went over me when he told me: "Ah, you are a large man, you would drop nicely." He told me one time that he was taught the trade by his father, who hanged himself...
...very simple, said Andrei Gromyko: Moscow and Teheran had already settled their dispute and UNO need not bother to consider the case. The Netherlands' sharp-nosed, sharp-tongued Eelco van Kleffens pressed for the exact nature and terms of what Gromyko had referred to as "an agreement," "an understanding," and "negotiations...
...having a fielder's glove custom-made for Joe Di Maggio III, aged 4^. Said he: "It's an exact copy of mine, but small. It will cost as much as mine but that's all right [since he makes a $43,500-a-year salary, Di Mag could well afford it]. Most kids have skimpy little gloves and I don't want him to have to use one of those." Di Mag even knows the time the train gets him into Manhattan's Penn Station from Baltimore, spring's last exhibition stop. Says...
...China: a strong, independent, unified, democratic nation. This intense popular demand restrained Chinese Communist intransigence and gave Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek a chance to set in motion the machinery of political reconstruction. But China needed outside help-guidance, mediation and the confidence of a strong friend who would not exact a price by undermining Chinese independence. For three months Marshall had filled the role of the strong friend. The morning after his arrival in Washington he reported to a press conference what had been accomplished-with scarcely a word of his own part...
...Lysenko have been tested for decades before his time by friends and foes and neutrals and their verdict has been: "They don't work!" Lysenko has not caused a revolution but has rather gone back to the prescientific era in genetics. Lysenko's experiments are reported without exact data and his interpretations are deduced from vague, amateurish concepts. . . . Genetics is a progressive science, welcoming expert criticism, but Lysenko's is disappointing. CURT STERN Professor of Experimental Zoology University of Rochester Rochester...