Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Richard Peirse, Chief of the Bomber Command. Knocking out his pipe and shutting off his notoriously favorite pipe dream-a dreadnought bomber with high enough ceiling, great enough speed and sure enough armament to make any fighter useless-Air Marshal Peirse set "interpretive experts" to work plotting the exact location of ships, number of planes necessary for a thorough job, other mechanical details. Then Sir Richard sat down with his staff and Fighter and Coastal Command liaison officers to discuss tactics: time and place of rendezvous, level of attack, number of squadrons, types of planes, nature of escort...
...Army of 1,500,000, on paper in June 1940, is adequately housed today. Cost, including hospitals: $872,000,000. Said Bob Patterson, anticipating criticism of this tremendous cost: "Had time (which we could not spare) been consumed in more complete planning and more exact contracting, we would have saved money...
...American Peace Mobilization last week shook its little Red sail and went about on a new tack-in the exact wake of the Communist Party. For 40 days A.P.M. pickets had paraded before the White House, protesting aid to Britain-purely in the interests of peace. When A.P.M. gave up picketing as futile just before Germany attacked Russia, it did not recede from its stand one iota. But last week, after Russia was attacked, A.P.M. came forth with a vast new credo: an embargo on Japan, all-out aid to almost everyone, including Great Britain, China and-er-the Soviet...
...remark about the empyreumatical mackerel (TIME, May 26), Mr. Fly was on the right scent, but he failed to tell us anything about his authority for the quotation. Crabbed, although highly interesting, John Randolph of Roanoke shot it at Henry ("Mill-boy of the Slashes") Clay. His exact language seems to be in dispute. Bartlett puts it: "So brilliant, yet so corrupt, which, like a rotten mackerel by moonlight, shines and stinks." Personally one better likes the version employed in the life of Randolph, in The American Statesmen series of biographies: "Like a mackerel in the moonlight, he shined...
...hidden microphones in the armistice car. So he looked until he found a sound truck in the woods. "No one stops me so I pause to listen. It is just before the armistice is signed. I hear General Huntziger's voice, strained, quivering. I note down his exact words in French. They came out slowly, with great effort, one at a time. He says...