Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pneumonia; in Aberystwyth, Wales. He was frequently burned in effigy and denounced from Welsh pulpits for his anti-Welsh sentiments (example: "A Welsh choir's preliminary cough is often the most musical part of its performance"), was also so secretive that his own wife did not know his exact...
...characterizations in Captain from Castile are too sharp, the historical material too exact, to allow the book to be dismissed as merely a skillful costume thriller. Its language is sometimes too high flown, its plot too intricate and too neat, to satisfy the exacting requirements of serious literature. But, it is among the best popular fictional accounts of the conquistadores that has appeared (less burdened with history than Edward Stucken's The Great White Gods), less exotic than Salvador de Madariaga's The Heart of Jade. As good reading, certain to take the minds of thousands of readers...
Heavy bombers from Britain tried to hamstring the push by attacks on the supply railheads at Cologne, Coblenz and Mainz. While SHAEF clamped a blackout on the exact locations of the fighting, Berlin claimed major breakthroughs and progress in Luxembourg and Belgium...
...result could be achieved by such primal methods, he would probably be faced with exhaustion and loss of morale in his own troops, despite his massive reserves. The enemy knew that the arithmetic of a coarse slugging match worked both ways, and the keystone of his strategy was to exact such a price as to discourage the Allied effort. Thus, to continue bulling ahead on the lines of recent weeks would be playing the enemy's game. That was not Eisenhower...
Said Private Kinman to the patient, as he opened his jackknife: "I don't like to do this, but it is the only way you are going to live." He made a vertical incision in the exact middle of the wounded man's neck stopped the blood as well as he could,' made an up & down cut in the windpipe, which he wedged open with the top of a fountain pen. "Now," he said, "keep that pen in your windpipe and you'll be O.K. You can't breathe through your nose or mouth...