Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration's poverty bill. He was already on record in a scathing Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee minority report, drafted in tandem with Texas Republican John Tower that labeled the poverty bill "an attempt to reap political rewards," and he accused Johnson of trying to sell "almost exact replicas of programs that were tried by the New Deal during the Depression...
Appeal. The A.P. could produce no witness who heard Walker speak the exact words that Van Savell attributed to the general, although defense testimony seemed to corroborate the wire service. But to the Fort Worth jury of eight men and four women, the A.P. statements that Walker had assumed control and led the charge were both false and malicious. After 2¼ hours of deliberation, the jury awarded Walker $800,000. Still pending: some $27 million in Walker libel actions stemming from the republication of the A.P. story...
...built up from his messages: "I do come from a well-educated background (my father was a high civil servant), and I do not lack intelligence." To Paris-Presse he sent a sketch of the murder scene that showed the killer ("me") and the boy ("him") in the exact positions Inspector Samson had calculated. An accompanying note said: "Expect another dramatic development." It came when a grey-haired man in his 40s, dressed as a worker, handed Jean-Luc's Bugs Bunny comic book to a ticket puncher...
...Oriental father figure. Born in the northern Indian city of Allahabad, he belonged to a wealthy, Westernized family of the highest Brahmin class. When he was 15, the family sailed for England and the boy was entered at Harrow, where, as he put it, "I was never an exact fit." He moved on to Cambridge and two years of law studies at London's Inner Temple. He also had the money and appetite for fashionable parties in the West End, and could down a magnum of champagne without losing his poise or equilibrium. He was attracted by the ideas...
...back once more to Naples. There he put a pinch of the new compound in 100 liters of sea water and shook the mixture mechanically for twelve hours. Then he filtered out the chelating agent and washed it with acid. The result: 1.4 micrograms of gold (.000000049 oz.), the exact amount in 100 liters of Naples sea water...