Word: exaction
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Reader Winks quibbles. Exact words of the Committee: ". . . The University needed educational leadership, such as under the circumstances could not have been expected from a man of Dr. Kerr's antecedents and former associations."-ED. Owens' Heel...
...policy of treating newspapermen as gentlemen seemed worthy of a trial. We followed this line of action with whatever restrictions we could exact. I may state parenthetically that, with only an occasional exception, the reporters conducted themselves as ladies and gentlemen...
...Clairvoyant (Gaumont-British), remotely suggested by an Ernst Lothar novel about a man who discovered he had the gift of detailed and exact prophecy, makes eerie entertainment out of the supernatural. Like The Scoundrel which needed two outright miracles for a happy ending, The Clairvoyant uses the modest method of understatement...
...associate since the close of 1911, he brought to the service of the Bank an unremitting and loyal attention to every duty, a breadth of contact and experience that proved increasingly valuable, an exact and candid judgment dominated by principle and a crystal conscience...
...straight quotable interview, but as an indirect monolog addressed to the nation at large. Though, by this technical device, the President was relieved of black-&-white accountability for all he said, the 200 newshawks were able to reconstruct from their notes an historic political speech. Its exact words might be missing but from the front page of every newspaper in the land, the country clearly understood the President's remarks to have been, in effect, as follows...