Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the books about Emily Dickinson are stories of their battles. Ancestors' Brocades, the most recent and one of the best, is a 464-page record of the exact circumstances of the first book publication of Emily's poems, after her death. It is a valuable book, rich in detail, illustrated with 16 fine photographs and sketches. Its careful report of intellectual brutality, spite, frauds, lawsuits, jealousies, of poems and letters destroyed, attempted blackmail fabrications and hoarded literary wealth, would be almost unbearable if it were not for the glimpses of Emily one gets beyond the foreground...
...they had removed key radio vacuum tubes. U.S. officers found one tube was a unique German design; none like it had ever been made in the U.S. But engineers of the Bell Telephone Laboratories mastered its secret in less than 24 hours. Within three days they had made eight exact copies. Within three weeks 1,000 tubes were at the front and the telephone system was in operation...
...Crimea Conference's stern decision on German reparations-to exact payment in kind-had left the U.S. people waiting for a more detailed picture of official U.S. policy. Last week, although there was still no detailed statement of policy, they got a strong hint that Franklin Roosevelt was minded to go along with the Russians and, presumably, the British, in demanding a strict accounting for German destruction in Europe...
Winston Churchill growled like an angry bulldog when Laborite M.P. Richard Stokes accused him of lying to the House of Commons (in a flowery praising of British tanks), demanded that Stokes "repeat his exact words," appeared mollified when Stokes substituted for the word "lie" the Victorian phrase, "terminological inexactitude...
Nobody could put a finger on the exact point at which Bing Crosby attained this distinction, but the honor was definitely, securely his. For the past ten years "The Groaner" has averaged a new record every other week. Number of copies sold since he first began recording two decades ago: about 75 million. The Crosby voice has been heard oftener and by more people than even these figures hint at. Most U.S. radio stations play about twelve hours of recorded music a day. Day in & day out, from coast to coast, the singing voice heard oftenest in canned concerts...