Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bedroom wall, seems to have given Richardson's friend and fellow-novelist, Henry Fielding (Tom Jones), a hearty laugh instead, or at least the idea for a bawdy satire. Within six months, he pseudonymously penned An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, a short but exact parody* written, like Pamela, in the form of letters. In it, he turned a drily realistic eye on Pamela's character and behavior. In Fielding's view, Richardson's Pamela was a sham, not so much the valiant defender of her virtue as its coy auctioneer, shrewdly holding...
...called for local bar associations to establish insurance funds which would guarantee as a professional rule that no client of an association member would lose a case through the default of his lawyer. Griswold, asserting that the exact scope of the risks covered would have to be worked out later, asked for an insurance coverage limit of approximately...
...Exact Figure Given...
Token from the Master. The star of the show was Rosenberg's old friend and exact contemporary, Picasso (they were both born in 1881). The 43 Picassos on view included such masterpieces as Woman with Mandolin, Harlequin and Open Window, plus nine superb drawings. Among them: a sketch of sharp-eyed, sensitive-faced Paul Rosenberg, done in 1921 as a token of friendship...
...answer often suggested is to eliminate the middlemen between factory and consumer, thus save the profits that wholesalers and jobbers exact along the route. Many makers of industrial goods have already done this: more than 75% of the goods industry itself buys (e.g., machine tools) goes direct from factory to user. In some lines, however, the trend is in the other direction. Makers of business machines, who used to sell direct, are now selling part of their line across retail counters...