Word: exacted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large concert" of universities in pushing for legislative action to remove the disclaimer affidavit provision from the NDEA. At the same time, Senator Kennedy emphasized the need for effective protest at the student level. The Student Council has created a committee to study the question, and, although the exact purposes and plans of this group are unclear, the move is a step in the right direction...
Council members had no clear idea as to the exact function of the new group. One said it would be "a less humorous but more substantial version of the Confidential Guide...
Author Ellis' descriptions of the medical treatments are themselves enough to turn all but the most indifferent stomachs. In writing so exact that the reader constantly wants to cry halt, Author Ellis mounts a picture of torture-Davenant's bloody sputum, his overpowering fatigue, his successive operations. With a callousness that is often the byproduct of continuously observed suffering, doctors compete for reputation and experiment with various treatments, while the confused patient gains hope, loses it, and finally subsides in confusion. Awkward nurses blunder, the food drives patients to mutiny; in the background lurks the cut-price competition...
...news of the hit came to the free world from the radio telescope at Britain's Jodrell Bank. As the moon rose, the great 250-ft. dish swung toward it. The sharp beep-beep of Lunik II throbbed in the control room. The signals were coming from the exact point in the starry sky that the Russians had predicted by telegram to Jodrell Bank...
...Toward. The Russians called their shot carefully. They did not give its exact moment of launching and delayed first announcement long enough to permit a fairly accurate forecast of the rocket's trajectory. As a hedge they used the Russian preposition k (pronounced "kuh"), which means both to and toward. Thus they might have been shooting either at or toward the moon. The final payload, they said, was a sphere weighing 859.8 lbs. and carefully sterilized to avoid contaminating the moon. It was slightly heavier than the payload of Lunik I that missed the moon...