Word: inexact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...being his wife. Every morning, when they were at their favorite country house, the Gladstones walked uphill one mile to church, William throwing sticks for the dog, Catherine reading the morning mail and dropping most of it on the road. William was exact and businesslike. Catherine was inexact and totally haphazard. Visitors were often startled to find her wandering about on the way to her bath draped in nothing but a large towel. She conducted her charitable works with disarming inefficiency and brilliant success. One convalescent home received from her the gifts of a packet of seeds, a canary...
...your Congressman," suggested the Daily News of Chicago. In their vastly differing fashions, two Republican newspapers illustrated their Republican publishers' dissatisfaction with the Republican President of the U.S. Beyond that the similarity stopped. Union Leader Publisher William Loeb is a splenetic individualist for whom the description reactionary seems inexact. Daily News Publisher-Editor John S. Knight is a man of calmer mien whose estrangement from President Eisenhower is more restrained and at the same time more significant. For a report on two noteworthy journalists, see PRESS, Thunder on the Right and "That Stinking Hypocrite...
...television station, through an inexact method, has determined that over 10,000 persons view each of Boring's lectures...
...Behind Forster, by invitation instead of subpoena, came the New York World Telegram and Sun's Frederick Woltman and American Legionnaire James F. O'Neil to deny they were clearance men. Most breathless witness of the four-day hearing was Vincent Hartnett, 40, author of the unofficial, inexact, who's who of subversion, Red Channels. Hartnett described himself as a "talent consultant," denied Cogley's charge that he was "frankly in the business of exposing people with 'front records' and then, later, of 'clearing' them." But Hartnett admitted that he charged moderate...
...mines that ended with old-regime troops shooting down many miners. But it is an M.N.R. article of faith that the mines' tin-baron owners and the government they dominated provoked the massacre. Moving to the kill, Lechin got up a convention resolution denouncing Guevara for "inexact and tendentious statements." Siles, who could lose the next election without Lechin's support, signed it; so did Paz Estenssoro. Guevara had no choice but to resign...