Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coupons (enough points to buy a total week's supply of beef for U.S. civilians), worth an estimated $2.5 million to the counterfeiters. This rich haul surprised no one in OPA or the meat industry. The only secret about the vast nationwide black market in meat is the exact number of millions of animals diverted to this trade each year...
...Ninth. The exact size and dispositions of the Ninth Army are secret, but it is the freshest, keenest U.S. army in the west. It was called on for almost no help against Rundstedt, and clung to its Roer positions while the First and Third Armies were hammering the bulge flat...
...view of these very clear statements by the Colonial Secretary, I am confident you will agree that your summing-up of his attitude, in the footnote to which I have referred, was scarcely exact...
...note's exact contents were still unknown last week. But it meant just one thing to wishful, boyish King Peter: the U.S. agreed with him that the provisional government of Yugoslavia's Communist Marshal Josip (Tito) Broz needed a lot of improvement. Thus emboldened, King Peter withdrew his previous approval of the government, announced that he had accepted the unoffered "resignation" of its No. 1 figure in London, Premier Ivan Subasich. In short, King Peter tried to force Subasich...
...matriarch of the pioneer Melendy family is Vaughan's mother, Madam Exact Melendy, a firm, perceptive, pipe-smoking, rye-drinking woman of 91. Since she was large and tired rather easily, Vaughan built her a miniature railway, running from her high-perched house to the street. Other characters include Vaughan's dull wife Emmy, who prided herself on being a daughter of one of "the Mercer girls" imported from New England by one Asa Mercer to mate with the lonely pioneers, and Vaughan's mistress Pansy Deleath, a pleasant, casual woman whom he met while...