Word: equal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only sustained offensive of the game with both the first and second lines getting off two excellent pairs of shots on Puchkov, who had spent most of the evening scraping the ice and examining the tape on his stick. The Soviet goalie proved himself to be at least the equal of his smooth-working teammates by turning away three shots which seemed certain goals...
Several members of the new Council signed a petition calling for a February date because the members do not know each other. One elective and two appointive posts are still undecided, and two candidates for the presidency were elected just last week and have not been given equal time to campaign...
...Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, do hereby declare and proclaim that the procedural requirements imposed by the Congress on the State of Alaska to entitle that state to admission into the Union have been complied with and that admission of Alaska into the Union on an equal footing with the other states of the Union is now accomplished...
...Algiers after becoming Premier. Only four months later, when he abruptly ordered all French army officers to resign from the insurrectionary Committees of Public Safety, did the right-wing Europeans of Algiers realize that what he had meant was that he understood them and disapproved. Last week, with almost equal lack of forewarning, De Gaulle suddenly began churning out a series of decrees that he had been quietly preparing ever since his return to power last June. Among them...
...sustained loyalty, raucous fanaticism and sheer madness, there are few sporting crowds in the world to equal the hockey fans of Montreal. Whenever Les Canadiens are in town, French Canadians jam Montreal's Forum (capacity: 13,531) to shout bilingually (English and French) for their heroes. Every Canadiens game since World War II days has been a sellout, and it is so hard to get tickets that season-ticket holders have been known to dispose of their seats in their wills...