Word: best
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...Thus, the one area in which a common language has best chance to grow is that of ground rules for the great competition which dominates our time-some rules of the game-to keep it within bounds set by the conditions of co-survival...
MANY U.S. military men agree that $41 billion a year is enough to buy adequate defense for the nation, but few believe that the $41 billion-plus budget for fiscal 1961 is going to buy the best or even adequate defense. Though drafted over months of round-the-clock work by able planners, the proposed defense budget leaves the U.S. with cause for rising worry over how much security it gets for its tax dollar. Reason: the 1961 budget, like many of its predecessors, represents slow compromise with the fast, uncompromising changes of modern-weapons technology. Result: it spreads...
...here, as President Eisenhower and others have emphasized, that the West can best help. By supplying others with capital, the West may be able to help them achieve more speedily what it took Japan 90 years to accomplish-the transition from a purely agricultural nation to an industrial-and-agricultural nation whose citizens can now clearly foresee the day when they will all enjoy an adequate diet...
...have absolutely no intention of delivering Guinea either to Western or Eastern influence," says Touré, proclaiming his creed to be "Pan-African neutralism." Even if his procedures owe more to Lenin than to Jefferson, those who know him best believe that 1) ambitious Sékou Touré intends to be beholden to no one, 2) his fellow-traveling companions, who made the journey to the U.S. with him, found the U.S. a much better place than it had seemed through Red-colored glasses...
...Eastern National Livestock Show in Timonium, Md., virtually all honors in the Devon bull competition were swept by a Western cattleman. His bulls took blue ribbons for Grand Champion bull, Best Pair of bulls and Best Bull Calf. Owner: Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse...