Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...island has been built (the planned total is an Air Force secret), no exact location announced. But survey ships are already at sea, taking samples of the ocean bottom to determine the firmest anchorages for the new stations. By next spring, construction will be under way. Air Force target date for completion of the entire chain: 1957. Total estimated cost (excluding radar equipment): $15 to $20 million...
...conducts his tense story to a bitter end, making its adult drama the more effective by framing it always in the eye of a child. He paints a near-perfect picture of country-house life at the turn of the century-its etiquette, its croquet and cricket matches, its exact relation to classes and countries outside its own. He also has a simple tune to play on his symbols-for Leo (the lion) stands for a young England ignorant of the social upheaval that the new century is destined to bring in. with such lawbreakers as Ted and Marian...
...into Barnau, a small German town hard by the Czechoslovak border, jounced a U.S. Army weapons carrier one evening last week, bearing seven off-duty medics of the 186th Field Artillery Batallion. On the main street the truck halted, while Captain Jack M. Davis cautiously asked townspeople about the exact location of the border; he was anxious not to wander over...
...cost controls were so tight that it knew the exact cost of running each train...
Almost the exact sentiments were noted by Sumner Cohen in his biography. "The decision upon graduation to enter the Business School seemed at the time to be a good one. After all, everyone was making millions in the stock market. . . . We were enrolled less than a month when came that Black Friday that ushered in the Depression. We spent the next two years in Cambridge concluding in consecutive monthly reports, backed by formidable statistics, that the depression was over...