Word: counterweighted
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...Stockholm the Peace Partisans launched their great petition campaign. It was called the World Peace Appeal but it said nothing about peace. It did not condemn aggression. Those who bothered to read it found that it merely demanded the unconditional prohibition of the atomic bomb-the one counterweight to the vast Red Army
...arrangement the Germans and Japanese will fight our battles for us? Certainly not. But they will fight to defend their own homelands and their own national security and their own interests. To the extent that these are in harmony with our objectives in restraining Russia, they constitute an effective counterweight to the present serious imbalance...
...sandbag used as a counterweight accidentally crashed at the feet of Ethel Waters, star of The Member of the Wedding, as she took her curtain call in a Broadway theater. Unfazed, even though the weight had missed her by inches, she quoted a line from the hymn she sings in the play: "His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches...
...week was, "German unity." Considerably more aggressive on this subject, the same issue of New Times denounced the West German State as "colonial in character." In Germany's Russian zone, the Reds drummed up some 10 million people to elect a "People's Congress"-a me-too counterweight to the West German Federal Republic...
...from the skies marked the arrival of the U.S., its principles and policies, as a major force in the temporal and even spiritual policies of the Vatican. Rome, which once looked uncertainly toward the American Church, today looks to the U.S. as: 1) the world's most effective counterweight to the newly emergent power of Russia; 2) the world's greatest reservoir of food and goods to forestall the further demoralization of Europe; 3) the world's greatest embodiment of the form of government which offers the Church its best milieu for survival-democracy...