Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enormous armament also complicates our own approach to disarmament. We would have to do so much more disarming than the other side that ratification by the U.S. Senate begins to look like a bigger miracle than an agreement at Geneva...
...Agency as his answer: "the chief obstacles [to disarmament]...would be political resistance rather than deficiencies in our economic knowledge." And he added that "we would have to do so much more disarming than the other side, that ratification by the U.S. Senate would begin to look like a bigger miracle than an agreement at Geneva...
...seats in the House of Commons. Since then, the party has worked heroically to build up its organization, has elected more than 1,000 candidates to local councils. They already have twice the number of parliamentary candidates (340) that they were able to field in 1959, and a vastly bigger war chest ($560,000 v. $64,000). In the next general election, probably in 1964, most experts have assumed that the Liberals will lose much of their new-found strength to the two major parties...
...from many public school administrators. ''If we fracture our curriculum," says one, "what remains for public schools to teach?" Even cooler are those Catholic educators who feel not only that every subject-even electronics-needs religious interpretation, but that U.S. Catholics are rich enough to pay for bigger and better parochial schools...
...connotes a natural talent or knack, as in the line, "The Duke has a lot of bossa." The only points everybody is agreed on are that 1) bossa nova is a weird crossbreeding of cool jazz with chili-peppered Latin rhythms and 2) it is big, and getting even bigger...