Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heezen and Ewing appealed to Western Union and other cable companies. Just as they hoped, the companies had made careful studies of the costly disaster 24 years ago and had kept all the records. As each cable failed, the exact second of its failure was recorded by instruments on land. Other instruments determined accurately the position of each break. More information came from the repair crews. Long sections of some of the cables had been carried away and lost. Other cables were buried deep under mud and sand...
...writes: "I came across an item about . . . Sculptor Pietro Montana. I cut out the article and gave it to Pietro Montana, whom I had recently met. He had not seen the account when it was published, and he was amazed at TIME'S definite information and its exact way of stating facts...
...Anastasia, the killer, go free for lack of evidence after Star Witness Abe ("Kid Twist") Reles "jumped or fell" from a Coney Island hotel room in which six New York cops stood guard. But last week the commission exhumed a report, buried by O'Dwyer, on the exact circumstances of Panto's death...
Almost any alert bystander can detect an approaching switch in the Communist Party line, but it takes an expert to guess the exact number of rings in a rattlesnake's tail. The Parisian newspaper Le Figaro has an expert who, listening closely to the rattling of the French party, has accurately forecast such moves as Leader Maurice Thorez' summons to Moscow in 1950 and the recent purging of oldtime militants Marty and Tillon. Last week Le Figaro's expert, who signs himself "XXX," predicted that the next man marked for Communist oblivion is pudgy, acting Party Secretary...
...Legend variously attributes Matthew's death to fire, stoning and the sword. The exact circumstances are unknown...