Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neither President Kennedy nor President Johnson has ever supposed that this was going to be an easy contest or one in which there would be a rapid and decisive solution... I do not think we can now predict the exact shape of the eventual settlement. I myself believe that the question of the internal political organization and prospects of non-Communist South Vietnam is quite critical. This indeed is one of the uncertainties in the current situation... The bulk of the effort in Vietnam-in terms of human suffering and human loss-is being made by Vietnamese...
...sketches, around which some ornate frames hang randomly like lustrous afterthoughts. This is his laboratory for capturing reality. To it come such models as his brother Diego, who makes furniture in bronze, and his wife Annette, to pose for motionless hours. For each session, they must return to the exact posture that Giacometti wishes; he ensures this by placing position marks in red paint on his studio floor. He works at an agonizing mental distance from his models. One girl, who has modeled for him for three years, has never spoken with him. Explains Giacometti: "We are not on very...
...Street to find out why things are not better than they are. Eventually Simon may make a visit to the company himself?he took eight trips to West Virginia in the course of buying into Wheeling Steel?but his trips are mainly for general impressions rather than to learn exact detail of operations. When he has finally made up his mind about a company, the hot line to Sutro & Co. of Los Angeles, his primary broker, lights up and Simon begins...
...American lives and property. Thus, in 1801, marines landed in Tripoli to free the crew of a seized U.S. ship. In 1849, a U.S. naval force debarked in Turkey to gain the release of an imprisoned American. In 1851, U.S. troops intervened on Johanna Island, off East Africa, to exact redress for the imprisonment of an American whaling captain...
...Choir's intonation was equally exact, and they followed Boris Nicoloff's enthusiastic, demanding direction well. Their changes in dynamics were sometimes too abrupt, the performance was otherwise extremely well-controlled...