Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paul Revere adulated Adolf Hitler every night except Saturdays (DXP and DJB -11:30 E.D.S.T.), but so dully that a more fitting name for him might have been Lord Ho-Hum. Last week, celebrating his 52nd birthday ("the exact age of Hitler, the most successful man in the world"), he revealed himself as Chicago-born Douglas Chandler...
Doon, an artist, is on trial for paper-knifing Edwin Hallett, his fellow house guest in the Van Eyck mansion in Manhattan, for love of Betty Van Eyck. It is a novelty item, presented as exact transcript of the trial itself, with sketches and photographs...
Another time there was the problem of the exact noise of a man being skinned alive: pulling apart stuck-together pieces of adhesive tape was the solution. Beheading acoustics were attained by slicing cantaloupes with a cleaver. Fingers were scissored off by substituting pencils for fingers. Dropping a raw egg on a plate simulated perfectly the blup of an eye-gouging. Flowing corn syrup furnished the voop-vulp of freely flowing blood. When a mechanical giant pulled a wretch's arm off, the leg of a cold storage chicken was pulled off beside the mike...
...number and exact location of these guardian outposts, scattered along the Panama Canal, are close-held Army secrets. But any foreign sailor, gliding through the Canal on a freighter, can see occasional clusters of tents or barracks in the hills, can even see the snouts of guns against the sky. Any Japanese or German strategist, studying maps of the Canal, knows that the guns are there to guard some of the most valuable military targets in the world: the locks in the Canal itself, and great earthen Gatun Dam (105 ft. above sea level and 400 ft. thick...
...sure those had been the exact words although he hadn't heard them since long ago when he was a miserable Freshman with a deathly fear of taking cuts. But he could still remember perfectly how the lecturer had looked, sitting on the corner of the New Lecture Hall desk, driving home each point with gesticulations of the pointer...