Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This proposal was perhaps the minimum the conference sponsors could exact and still claim to have exerted a check on Nasser. Unhappily, the London conference nations seemed unlikely to reach a reasonable measure of agreement on this or any other plan. India had, in effect, served notice that she would oppose any solution unacceptable to Nasser-and internationalization certainly would be just that. Russia had made it clear that her principal purpose in participating was to fish in troubled waters (see below...
...exact implication of a few cryptic sentences by Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis L. Strauss will long be debated in scientific, military and diplomatic circles, but their gist was clear: the U.S. had found a way to control, at least in some measure, the deadly and indiscriminate fallout produced by large nuclear explosions...
...simply not prepared to handle the traffic jam in its skies. Civil Aeronautics Administrator Charles J. Lowen suggested that progress could be made if Congress would approve the balance of funds for CAA's five-year plan to blanket the sky with long-range radar, which shows the exact position of all airborne planes. The committee chairman, West Virginia Democrat Robert H. Mollohan, then went Lowen one better. Why not telescope the CAA safety project into three years...
...flashy scarves and cock-of-the-walk manners, the pilots go up to drink the "black champagne" of death. Up in the "blue shell" of the sky with "the needles on the instrument panels as light as ghosts' tongues," the fighter pilots "hammer their woodpecker's tune, exact, refined and cruel," and they die. Civilians blunder into the nightmare at Janneby West like extras stumbling onstage at the wrong cue. A wife, summoned to her husband's funeral, finds it was all a mistake; after his plane plummeted to earth there was nothing left to bury...
...second printing−an all-time world record for musical reference works. As for Author Scholes, he sat happily in his house in Oxford, wheezing a bit but looking almost spry enough to take a fling at the Can-Can: "A boisterous and latterly indecorous dance . . . Its exact nature is unknown to anyone connected with this Companion...