Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tolls & Tabulations. If a man had a bridge on his land, he charged neighbors and strangers a toll to cross it.* When a woman died, the church bell tolled six times. A man was worth nine. Then, after a pause, the exact age of the late member of the congregation was tintintabulated for all to note...
...sins, and when she transgresses the petty rules that his ego has erected, he brings disaster to her emotions and near-disaster to his own career. Jock Sinclair is a study in many evils: drunkenness, cruelty, arrogance, hypocrisy; yet Guinness can keep him nearly lovable, and exact such a show of feeling from the Colonel's collapse at the fade as to make him an almost tragic figure, instead of the shoddy, imperious villain that a lesser actor might have left...
...bombs' exact dimensions are secret and vary according to power, but range roughly from as small as a football to as large as a big trunk...
...past so fast that its image would smear on a stationary film, even during an exposure of one-thousandth of a second. A small computing device called an intervalometer must note the airplane's speed and altitude and figure out how fast the film must move to keep exact pace with the ground. Just before the shutter opens a vacuum sucks the film against a perforated plate that starts moving at the necessary speed. After the shutter has closed, the vacuum releases the film so a new frame can be advanced, and the plate snaps back to its starting...
Because the Museum shop is especially geared to young customers, it has built up a steady clientele of day-after-allowance purchasers, who find they can pick up material for projects or curiosity at bargain rates. It was difficult to find an exact answer as to what constitutes a bargain for a porcupine fish, however...