Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theater. They hold that the best outcome of Geneva would be an agreement by Red China to stop supplying the Viet Minh. Then, they say, "Ho Chi Minh would wither on the vine, like the guerrilla leader Markos in Greece." But what price would the Moscow-Peking axis exact for such a boon? If the enemy offered it at all, the price would be high. To which Paris replies, hopefully, that they detect an "appetite for negotiations" and signs of inner tiredness among the Viet Minh...
...line of conflict between the analysis of Stokes and the Ivy League wanders through definitions of a liberal education, problems of fund raising, and the exact obligations of educational institutions to the nation...
...bogus historical lecture inspired by the finding of a complete skeleton. But Author Taylor's affection for Cape Cod and its people sometimes transcends comic writing, and his description of an offshore rescue by the local Coast Guard men during a hurricane is a model of exact reporting. The Bright Sands takes few fictional liberties with its natural setting. Those it takes with its characters keep Taylor well this side of libel, but won't stop the guessing games around Cape Cod stoves during the off season...
will surely pay an incalculable price for its criminal action." The Communists did not seem anxious to exact this price in renewed fighting. They tried instead for a penny's worth of propaganda...
Thompson refused to comment on the exact nature of his information, collected by a State Police investigation, saying only that police have been reviewing Furry's "entire background" for some time...