Word: equal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is no chemistry to equal that which works in the marriage of catastrophe with a courageous heart." That, for this writer's money, is fine writing. Perhaps, if Mr. O'Neill took that sentence for the theme of a new drama based on the five "years of silence and suffering," he would create the great play your critic estimates he has not created in The Iceman Cometh. FITZROY DAVIS Evanston...
Rhodes Scholar Fulbright was well steeped in such comparisons. Last week he promised to introduce a Constitutional amendment providing for the simultaneous election of the President and both branches of Congress, for equal terms. The chances to overturn 159 years of Constitutional tradition were scarcely favorable. But the dilemma in Washington had excited new speculation about the Constitution and its rigidities...
Modeled in some ways on the prewar reciprocal trade pacts, the treaty provided for free & equal trade on a most-favored-nation basis. It contained some specific safeguards for American investment, but not at the expense of the Chinese nation or people. Besides furnishing a much-needed business blueprint, the conclusion of the pact was a peacetime implementation of a primary U.S. war thesis: that China is a big power now, and deserves to be treated as such. U.S. business naturally hoped that China would soon begin to behave like a grownup...
...power, either in the Security Council or in the Atomic Energy Authority, would mean the end of the United Nations. With unanswerable logic, but again only within the limits of his own hypothetical alternatives, he pointed out the absurdity of majority rule in which the vote of Honduras is equal to that of the United States or the ballot of Haiti holds as much weight as that of the Society Union. Therefore, he said, the only possible hope for peace lay in Big Five unanimity...
...hand, then, we have the absurdity of placing unequal nations on an equal plane, and on the other, an impracticable principle of unanimity among powers who, as reasonable men may, disagree on many questions. Neither Molotov, nor all the representatives who have been clamoring for restriction of the veto, seem to have realized the further implications of its removal: that if a world organization is to consider making decisions by a majority, it is necessary that the votes of the various nations bear some relationship to their power, population, and consequent importance in world politics; in short, some form...