Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Jane had clearly won her fight. Her strong, disciplined voice, clear diction and exact phrasing, bridging the gap between torch and classical, made most of the new ballads she sang sound better than they really were. Younger singers could take pointers from the confident way she wrapped her voice around such oldies as Get Happy, Embraceable You and I've Got You Under My Skin. Not only could she get around a nightclub floor without a trace of a limp, she was spending her spare time on the golf course, trying to regain her low-80s game...
Next spring, Haldy's orderly routine-his starchy luncheons at Foster's dinette, his trips to the Burlington station to watch the trains ("so powerful, so straight, so exact")-will be changed a bit when he retires. But before it does, Haldy will have one slight interruption. Last week, the St. Louis section of the American Chemical Society announced the winner of its annual Midwest Award for achievement. Usually the gold medal goes to distinguished research scholars. This year it will go to Monmouth's William Haldeman, teacher and maker of chemists...
...Although exact figures are not available, the Business School space accommodates 600 cars, the Graduate School lots, 135, and the new space...
Regarding MacArthur's policy on Formosa [TIME, Sept. 4]: I cannot help but think of our entering Iceland in 1941 when we were not yet at war. The parallel is exact today in the case of Formosa...
...especially when the headline was quoted in the U.S. press as an instance of British ill will. The subeditor who wrote the headline was fired and the Beaver scorched Gunn for good measure. Gunn stood firm, argued that the headline was "no more than a quotation" (but not an exact one) from the story under it by Chicago Daily News Correspondent Keyes Beech. But the Beaver had had enough...