Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eight girls who are making the trip will do social work in the same area, although the exact nature of their project has not been decided yet. The Harvard students also plan to lead discussion seminars with their Mexican counterparts...
...teacher in a New York City high school, I wish to protest an article about a new teen-age kick-glue sniffing [Feb. 16]. To go into the exact techniques for enjoying the effects of glue vapors is just short of criminal...
...explaining himself, the realist painter nowadays has to answer two realistic questions. Why does he not leave exact representation to the camera, which has been perfected to the point that it can catch the most fleeting expression, can render color in hues no longer dishonestly brilliant, and can see things in virtual darkness? And why, if he must "get back to the image.'' does he not at least employ the gains of imagination and emotion brought to painting by impressionism, surrealism and abstraction? A picture called The Window Box, on display at Manhattan's Maynard Walker Gallery...
...fact that Government stockpiles of industrial materials that the nation might need in event of war had long since outstripped the scandalous farm hoard, are now valued at more than $7.7 billion.* Brusquely dismissing the plea of "military secrecy," which has long been used to conceal the exact extent of stockpiling operations. Kennedy said that stockpiles now contain almost twice as much material as the Pentagon assumes the U.S. would need for a three-year war. He estimated that the excess supply of nickel alone was worth $103 million, the excess supply of aluminum another $347 million...
...exact manner of the world's ending today was not universally agreed upon by the experts. Indians prepared for earthquakes, a devastating flood was predicted for the East coast of the United States, and astrology charts foretold an earth "bathed in the blood of thousands of kings." Rumors of a holocaust were in the air, but this was too close to possible to become a popular theory...