Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against TV's mightiest (Milton Berle, Groucho Marx, Lucille Ball). Then in 1957 he announced his retirement "from the lights of TV to the shades and shadows of the Cross. As the retirement was dictated by spiritual considerations, so will be the moment of return." The exact spiritual considerations are not known, but Uncle Miltie has announced his return to the silver tube and so now has Uncle Fultie. Beginning in the fall on 30 syndicated stations, New York's Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, 71, will conduct a weekly color series called not Life Is Worth Living...
...taxis or peddling their influence. Clerks and secretaries cart away office supplies to sell on the black market. Chauffeurs and bus drivers put in extra hours hauling passengers for themselves, pick up extra pocket money by siphoning gasoline from their tanks and selling it. Soldiers set up roadblocks to exact a few rupiahs from every passing vehicle. Schools are supposedly free, but teachers expect donations of money or rice from their students. At ports, longshoremen and police openly loot incoming cargoes; one favorite ploy is to remove the vital parts of imported machinery and sell them back to their desperate...
Such laws, including those touching on the press, are still surrounded by uncertainties. The right of the press to publish and the public to know any significant fact is taken to be paramount, and in the case of public figures, almost anything can be significant, right down to the exact state of a President's intestines. Those who voluntarily display themselves, including entertainers, are also presumed to have forfeited their right in some measure. In recent years entertainers have been loud in their pleas for privacy, including a Frank Sinatra, who will take a 20-year-old actress...
Chaos & Shock. The difference might seem negligible, but scientists have speculated for years on the fascinating possibility that for every bit of matter, there is an equal and opposite bit of antimatter somewhere in the universe. In the world of antimatter, all particles would be the exact mirror image of their material selves, except that their electrical charges and magnetic poles would be reversed. And it was this that the experiment at Brookhaven called into question. For if it had been done in an antimatter world, the faster positive pion would have been negatively charged. The theoretical symmetry of matter...
...single strain are passed through a laboratory chromatograph. a device that separates chemical compounds, they produce a distinctive graph with characteristic peaks and valleys. Thus the graphs or chromatograms of unidentified bacteria can be com pared with those of known bacteria and-like fingerprints-be used to establish their exact identity...