Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Venice even then drew 30,000 Englishmen a year. So many top-chop Londoners returned with Canaletto's etchings and oil paintings that an Englishwoman visiting the city for the first time in 1785 wrote that the artist's "views of this town are most scrupulously exact, to such a degree that we knew all the famous towers, steeples, etc., before we reached them...
...Although exact figures are as yet unavailable, University officials are hoping for something approaching $800,000 for the current academic year...
Although no exact figure was available last night for the extent of Federal aid given the University as part of the foreign aid program, the annual total appeared to be below $1 million...
...refugees come looking for asylum, scholarships, political support, and finances for their operations. Help is usually forthcoming, though seldom the exact quantity or type desired. Most of the refugees are political exiles, forced to flee in order to escape banning orders or arrest. Many are students, who have come north looking for scholarships because higher education is denied them in ther own countries. Others are school teachers, nurses, journalists, or musicians seeking an opportunity to follow their professions free from enforced discrimination and apartheid...
...about the continents back in 1750. The obvious need has been for more precise exploration of the deep. And the obvious lack, until now, has been ways and means to plunge to great depths, remain there for days or weeks at a time and explore such mysteries as the exact topography and geological composition of the ocean floor...