Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Connor has an exact ear for the boisterous and outrageous language that the Boston Irish use and his caricatures of prominent Bostonians, especially the one of a certain currently popular Lady Politician, "a great grotesque woman with a huge marshmallow face and a tiny bright red mouth," are subtle and droll...
...owner who yearned to be a mensch, a pillar of the community, but always remained a smalltime schwanz. Commission sleuths assembled a voluminous dossier that told everything-and nothing-about him. They could detail his gross income and net profits for February 1958, but they could not discover his exact birth date and wound up listing eight in the year 1911. They learned that his boyhood nickname was "Sparky," then gave three different reasons for the origin of the name...
...impossible to predict the exact expression the split in experience will take. But in view of the origins of support for totalitarian movements in the 1930's there is good reason for apprehension. Historians have usually attributed the stability of this country's political order to the ambiguity of class distinctions and the prevelance of common (middle-class) out-look. Though the split in experience could never destroy this stability, it could certainly weaken it. The war has thus brought out the worst in the draft and the draft has highlighted some of the most dangerous weaknesses in American society
...paper said last week that "views harmful to the interests of the community were often expressed during lectures on secular subjects" at the seminaries. "The authorities cannot be indifferent to how the civic attitude of future priests is shaped," said an editorial that spoke of state plans "to exact observance of the laws...
Last week the Paul Taylor Dance Company opened a one-week stand in Manhattan with Orbs, Taylor's newest and most ambitious work. It, too, was way out-in the solar system, to be exact...