Word: exaction
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...chiefly celebrated for his immortal and exact definition of the taste of Montmartre boite de nuite (night club) champagne...
...cousin, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, presented him at a Royal Levee in 1925. By pure accident, George V was ill on the appointed day; and the Levee had to be held by Edward of Wales (officially representing His Majesty). The function was, in every social particular, the exact equivalent of a reception by the King-Emperor. Thus the story that Rudyard Kipling was not "forgiven" until last week is tosh...
Keen, well informed observers of Bulgaria deemed that Tsar Boris, able, potent, had spoken the exact truth. Bulgarian security is good and the country sound, despite frequent cabinet upsets, which always seem to end in a resumption of power by Prime Minister Andrei Liapchev...
Vice President Richmond Dean is the hero of Pullman car naming. When the Pullman Co. took over the Wagner Sleeping Car, at the exact turn of the century, it was discovered that 300 cars bore duplicate names. Mr. Dean spent a restless afternoon and evening. On a sudden inspiration, he had the Chicago public library opened. With a corps of clerks, he delved into ancient history, Greek, Roman. Within 24 hours he gave heroic and antique christening...
What causes the curious plateau of ice, two miles high and flat as a pancake, of which the South Pole appears to be the almost exact centre...