Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...investment of blood, money and effort of the earlier years. Under his leadership, Israelis fulfilled the ancient Jewish promise of meeting "next year in Jerusalem." His dream of seeing a new wave of immigration from Russia proved as elusive as peace with the Arabs, but he came somewhat closer to his political ambition of forging a single majority labor party...
...expected, Dartmouth easily won the opening relay to lead, 7-0. Powlison immediately set a record by swimming the 1000-free in 10:46.0, a new pool mark, while trouncing highly-touted Clint Harris. Gerhart moved his team a little closer to Dartmouth with an exciting win in the 200-free...
...this year, which at one stage included reviews of everything from Wellesley (a subject better left to the Collegiate Guide or the freshman Handbook) to Inman Square, the reviews ranging from the adequate to the abysmal. Fortunately, that stage has passed and as it presently stands it is much closer to being a justifiable publication than it ever was before. It is still by no means certain that it will continue to exist, or even that it should, but its chances are now improved for several reasons...
...level in West Germany; they consider airlifts from the U.S. no substitute for forces permanently based on European soil. No one pretends, however, that ground forces are anything but a first line of defense for Western Europe?especially now that the Soviets have more troops in Eastern Europe, and closer to the West's defense perimeter, than at any time since 1945. The Czechoslovak experience cast grave doubt on the once-fashionable doctrine of graduated response. Behind the troops must be the U.S. nuclear-missile deterrent, and the European allies want reassurance that it will be used if needed...
...budget request for the year starting July 1 is $1.8 billion. The overall cost of even a thin system, originally pegged at $3.5 billion, is now officially estimated to be more than $5 billion. Some critics think that a more realistic figure for the defense system would be closer to $10 billion...