Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stendhal carried in his mind's eye an exact portrait of Lamiel, the heroine of his last novel. "She is a little too tall and too thin," he noted. "I have seen her between the Bastille and the Porte St. Denis, and in the steamboat from Honfleur to Havre; her head is the perfection of Norman beauty; a superb high forehead, blond cendré [ash-blond] hair, an admirable and faultless little nose, blue eyes not quite big enough, chin narrow but a little too long; her face is a perfect oval and one can only take exception...
Somerville police booked the two on the basis of a phone call made that afternoon to the Camacho home by the unknown men the only call the Camachos could be exact about on the time. In this call, several members of the family and a friend on the party line heard the caller use such words as "whore, prostitute, son of a bitch," and phrases like "you'd better watch your wife, mister, we've all been in bed with...
...Candidate José Antonio Remón, once commander and still boss of Panama's only armed force, the 3,300-man National Police. Actually, because Panamanians count votes at their leisure (after the last election they took three months), "Chichi" Remón would not know the exact tally for weeks. But behind Chichi were his cops, the government, control of most of the vote-counting, a razzle-dazzle campaign and even a respectable number of willing voters. With that setup, it was hard to see how he could lose...
Died. Dr. Clark Leonard Hull, 67, Sterling Professor of Psychology at Yale University and author (Principles of Behavior, Hypnosis and Suggestibility); of a heart attack; in New Haven. In his lifelong effort to bring psychology closer to exact science, Dr. Hull contended that mathematics can be used for an orderly and scientific measurement of human behavior...
Cold Intent. The Time of the Assassins bears the mark of truth. Blunden has evoked the unutterable weariness of the Ukrainians as they are manipulated by the warring camps. He notes the exact inflection of the NKVD voice, "a voice trained in the essentials, trained in the minimum of personal expression." In a few harsh strokes, he renders the whole humiliating relationship between Nazi overlords and Ukrainian collaborators. But he is at his best in comparing Nazis and Stalinists. Both, as he paints them, are alike in their disregard for the human person, but the Germans kill wantonly while...