Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bewitching in the rose straw hat the Duchess of Westminster had brought her from Paris, she gave a party at the Dorchester to hear the election returns - and the news was a Labor sweep. Almost worse was the arrival of Lady Diana Duff Cooper, fresh from Paris, wearing an exact duplicate of the rose straw...
...from a "young Tory" M.P., Robert John Graham Boothby, once Churchill's private secretary, who charged that advocates interpreted Bretton Woods as the gold standard in the U.S. and as a flexible system in Britain. With all the weight of his authority, Lord Keynes called Bretton Woods "the exact opposite of the gold standard." In the end, Bretton Woods would be whatever the controlling nations chose to make...
...Gibbon's, and thanks to his inveterate good nature and high spirits, probably had more real friends. Some of his biographers have been unable to get past Boswell's faults and a few have tried to argue them away, but Mr. Quennell has done the pudgy Scot exact justice. He has seen-but also seen past-the clown who strutted about the Shakespeare Jubilee in Corsican fancy dress and who "sallied forth like a roaring lion after girls." Mr. Quennell has rightly praised him as not only the author of the greatest biography in existence, but also...
With 27 helpers, Rowen got busy. Shunning everything that looked like school, he set up workable, toy-like models of the main parts of a B29, beginning with a propeller that could be operated from an exact replica of B-29 controls, and ending with a mockup of a whole plane in which student reactions could be tested when things went wrong. Charts and graphs of fuel and electrical systems were also converted into full-scale mockups, covered with Plexiglas or painted in bright colors so that students could see what happened when they worked the controls. Result: fascinated trainees...
...even these two able strategists could know precisely what sort of campaign they must prepare for. Japan supposedly has 1,750,000 men under arms, ready to defend the homeland. Would they fight to the same bitter end as the 85,000 on Okinawa? Would they exact the same toll, of one U.S. soldier killed for every ten Japanese? Must the U.S. prepare for at least 175,000 killed-twice as many as in the European Theater of Operations? Would the enemy succeed in mobilizing into the People's Volunteer Corps 100,000,000 automatons for suicidal defense...