Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rescue Detach ment was set up at South Viet Nam's Danang airbase with Albatrosses and H43-F "Huskie" helicopters, as many as 15 U.S. and South Vietnamese pilots have been plucked from Red-infested jungles in Viet Nam and Laos and from waters off the coast; the exact figure is classified. In the series of raids against North Viet Nam since last Feb. 7, the efficient rescuers have racked up an enviable batting average-out of ten pilots shot down, seven have been saved...
Dorfman takes infinite pains to achieve exact historical accuracy, down to the last human hair inserted in the back of a plastic hand. He studied 18th century treatments for smallpox at the Army Medical Museum to get the pockmarks on George Washington's face just right. Henry Ford's stature and eye color were taken from his 1916 driver's license. In a tableau depicting Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery being briefed by a weather officer on D-day morning, the weather maps used are authentic Government documents stamped "secret," and the uniform worn...
Intertwined in this code is a curious adherence to a chivalric code of honor. To be sure, lower class Negroes seldom speak of these standards; but when formal relations break down, they often exact irrational retribution for small offenses against these norms. Thus, two men drew knives when one accused the other of owing him a nickel. Neither backed down...
Delano estimated that over 70 percent of Harvard applicants to the Peace Corps will be accepted. Last year 125 members of the graduating class actually entered the Corps, but this was not the exact group which signed during recruiting. The success of last year's drive "astounded" Delano...
...these accusations are just, the Flights Agency is behaving not only immorally, but also illegally. The International Air Transport Association (IATA), which regulates all major transcontinental airlines, prohibits a chartering agency from making a profit or from charging more than "reasonable administrative fees." And though providing no exact definition of "reasonable," IATA clearly disallows two practices commonly attributed...