Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What the hell," he notes, "even Harold Stassen had a bigger voice than I did simply because he was a candidate. You have to be a candidate to be heard." He adds: "I'll be any kind of candidate for anything to carry this cause?or I'll be no candidate, if that's the best way to get the Republican Party back into the mainstream of American life...
...ultimate hero is the democratic process itself, which is bigger than any individual. This may cut down heroes. But it can also inspire an increment of effort that can make a hero out of many a man who was born in obscurity and never suspected his own strength...
...often makes the match a bore to watch. Van Alen's answer: a totally different scoring system called VASSS (for Van Alen Simplified Scoring System), which he invented in 1957 but really tried for the first time in a pro tournament last summer. Last week VASSS got a bigger test at the richest pro tournament in history-a $30,500 round robin in Forest Hills...
Antwerp has been blessed by history, geography and its neighbor's good roads. The single superhighway leading from the city fortunately connects with the German autobahn, and excellent canal and rail links tie Antwerp to the rest of Europe. Compared with its bigger competitors for investment, Belgium is more centrally located than Italy or Britain, more politically friendly than France, and farther from the Iron Curtain than West Germany. In the hunt for new business, Antwerp since 1956 has spent $100 million to clear industrial sites and double its harbor capacity, plans to have the port ready...
...came from Ben-Gurion, who had been informed of the Anglo-French plans to wrest the Suez Canal from Nasser. Responsibility for plans and operations was handed to Major General Dayan, who at 38 had been named Israel's Army Chief of Staff in 1953. Nasser had the bigger, better equipped force. To achieve surprise, Dayan delayed general mobilization until the last possible moment before his attack. Then, on Oct. 29, he dropped 395 paratroopers from 16 lumbering Dakotas near the Mitla Pass, only 45 miles from Suez. The first 100 hours of the nine-day war were decisive...