Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Well," said Ethel, "the exact same thing happened. The plaster hardened. I couldn't swallow. I couldn't talk. I kept moaning, hmmmmm, hmmmmm, hmmmmm! They knew I was suffering, but they made believe they couldn't hear...
...last Jan. 17 remembered seeing "another parachute with half a man" fall into the sea after a nuclearladen B-52 had collided with a jet tanker. The "half a man" was a 20-megaton H-bomb, and luckily the skipper of one fishing sloop was sure he knew the exact spot where the bomb fell-five miles off the coast near Palomares. Other sea going Spanish witnesses were equally sure the site was elsewhere, but the U.S. Navy routinely put down a marker buoy just the same...
...program, stressing courses in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, will be financed by a grant from the Carnegic Foundation. The grant will also support another 80 students at Yale and 20 at Columbia. Although the exact amount has not been definitely settled, officials at the three universities expect it to be in the neighborhood...
...change." Rejection of God seems to have exhausted his powers of skepticism. In his lonely circular cell he became a devout numerologist, and solemnly counted the words or lines in letters he received as a basis for abstruse and totally nutty calculations that would provide, he believed, the exact date of his release. His number never came up. He died of a pulmonary congestion in the asylum at Charenton...
Another major bugaboo of the committee was its fear of Red Chinese intervention. Taylor pointed out that one reason Peking entered the Korean War was its uncertainty about America's exact aims and its own real fear that Manchuria would be invaded. In the present conflict, he said, the U.S. has clearly stated that "it is not our objective to crush or destroy North Viet Nam" and that it is not seeking an unconditional surrender-"an Appomattox, a Yorktown, a ceremony on the battleship Missouri...