Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...influential American diplomat: his breakfast host, Ambassador Clarence Douglas Dillon. Returning briefly to the U.S. last fortnight, Dillon had paused in Washington to record a radio interview for CBS's Capitol Cloakroom. One inevitable question: Why had the British and French stopped their Suez advance? Dillon's exact answer: "Well, I think what is generally felt to be the reason in the Middle East is probably-was probably the main reason, and that was fear of Soviet armed intervention. It was-I don't think-they knew that we were-certainly it was not the oil pressure...
...NLRB cannot deny its services to the union membership. Principal reason, as outlined in a unanimous decision delivered by Associate Justice William O. Douglas: Congress intended to restrict the NLRB's role to getting the affidavits filed, left it to the Justice Department to examine their validity and exact penalties where required-but only "against the guilty officers." Practical effect of the decision: the NLRB's anti-Communist fire is only half as strong as it used...
...progressed through A.A.'s twelve self-improvement steps (sample: "[We] admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs") and became an enthusiastic convert, Ann found her life was losing what meaning it had held before. Playing nursemaid to a drunk had been a fulltime responsibility, the focus of her existence, but Ed's new purpose all but left her out in the cold. Where once Ed had been out drinking with his cronies, now he was sitting up nights with new cronies, helping to keep them from drinking...
...weather drama. The leading players are enormous masses of cold, dry air that sweep down from the polar regions at irregular intervals. The Bjerknes theory, emphasizing fronts and air masses rather than cyclones, lit up meteorology like a new sun rising, and upgraded it into a more exact science. It is still the basis of the familiar newspaper weather maps...
...report was prepared through study of the ticket distribution, but one passage suggested that Lunden's office refused full cooperation. It reads, "We have been unable to obtain an exact accounting for all the tickets in Section 31. A cursory observation would seem to indicate some of these tickets are used by groups other than those listed." The Department of Athletics had said that tickets in Section 31 went to players and to University officials...