Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roared like an indoor tornado. Climbing at about 2.5 ft. per second (a slow walk), the plane rose 60 ft. under perfect control. The restraining cables, hanging slack, were not necessary; Pilot Coleman rose and descended three times, hanging on his prop for 15 minutes and landing on the exact spot from which he took...
...servants"), and work in his private study. But at the appointed hour, he hastily undressed again, scurried into his gorgeous State Bedroom, and allowed himself to be officially roused from sleep by his Gentlemen. Nobody thought there was anything extraordinary about this sham ritual, for it was an exact copy of the method by which France was ruled. Just as Louis XV had a State Bedroom in which to lie down officially, so had he "Parlements" and a "Conseil d'Etat"-Bourbon equivalents of the modern dictator's "Soviets"-to lay down officially the laws which he created...
...forced to study. In time the men realize what they are at the school for and settle down; the senior and junior men on the mid-year's Dean's List outnumber the freshmen and sophomores on it, four to three. The freshman and sophomore girls had the exact same number of honors as the senior and junior women...
Perhaps out of the re-examination might yet come some spine-stiffening resolve to exact a price from the Communists for Dienbienphu, or a determination -if they got no cease-fire at Geneva-to fight on. But all that could be said for the moment was that Dienbienphu had shocked France deeply...
...Society's spirit lies in what it considers "legitimate." While it expects some kind of scholarly return for its investment in a man, the exact area of a member's work is left purposely vague. The Senior Fellows, in interviewing a man, make no effort to pin him down closely on his projected work. They place their hopes in the general possibilities of a creative thinker rather than in his specific plans or even past achievements. But despite the shortness and informality of the interview, the meetings have been described as "devastating." A report of one of the interviews reads...