Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Starting the discussion, Sean O'Tuama, an Irish playwright, poet, and critic, spoke on literature and immorality--"sexual immorality to be exact, because it is so much easier for me to speak...
...many years astronomers assumed that scintillation was due to variations in the refraction of starlight as it passed through turbulent regions of the earth's atmosphere. But they were never able to establish the existence of a particular region or the exact meteorological conditions involved in the effect. An experiment by the Sandia Corp. of Albuquerque, N. Mex., reports Physicist Craig C. Hudson in Nature, has finally confirmed the occurrence of the twinkle layer in the outer atmosphere...
...successful in part because it was almost the exact antithesis of James Bond. Alec Leamas is more than a spy. He is aging and tired, skilled but fallible. Le Carré took infinite literary pains to limn him as an ordinary mortal, susceptible to mundane pressures, capable of cynicism about his craft, who in the end elects to rejoin the society that he never quite left...
...ultimately rebut the militant argument that crime will decrease only if the cops and courts get tougher. Admittedly, fear of dire punishment is often an effective deterrent. So, for that matter, is torture. But the reformers argue that the hope of an orderly society lies in making "equal and exact justice" more equal and more exact. As Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr has observed, "Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary...
Investigators are still trying to determine the exact cause of the blast. The accelerator, buried 16 ft. below ground, was not damaged, and there was no danger of radioactivity. Still, the laboratory's new bubble chamber for the study of subnuclear particles lay twisted and scorched in the $1,000,000 wreckage. When all the evidence has been studied, the deceptively simple element may yet be exonerated. But significantly, when the accident occurred, the scientists were cautiously handling hydrogen, piping it into the 100-gal. bubble chamber...