Word: equal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kremlin's new aggressiveness, said Rusk, that was "modest enough to show restraint, yet vigorous enough to demonstrate concern." Despite the new Soviet threat that, after all, touches Western Europeans most directly, the European response seemed more modest than vigorous. Italy agreed to a 7% budget increase, equal to an extra $140 million; West Germany promised to spend an additional $180 million and to bring its twelve divisions up to strength. The British managed a neat juggling act by announcing a hike in their contribution without any increase in defense spending, accomplished in part by pledging to NATO some...
...last couple of hundred years that we've had some idea that the earth is in some small way attracted to us, though directly in proportion to its far greater importance. It is convenient when considering the throwing of yourself out of an airplane to ignore the equal and opposite force your body exerts on the earth. Especially when there could be an equal or greater number of people jumping out of planes on the other side of the earth. In Vietnam, for instance. (If everyone in the whole world flew over the same corner of the planet...
...worried? If so, you better not read on, for the dangers we face from natural causes are as nothing to the peril of our own creation. There are 45,000 computers operating in America today, and they are taking over our lives in a way that an equal number of vampires couldn't dream...
...creative fertility was so prodigious that his 97 volumes of autographs exceed the combined complete works of Bach and Beethoven. Although a contemporary of Corelli, Vivaldi, Scarlatti, and Telemann. Handel beggared their combined achievements with his limitless genius. Yet while the scope of Bach, Handel's only contemporary equal, is now fully grasped, the boundless wealth of Handel has been reduced to one or two operatic arias, a couple of organ concertos, the Water and Fireworks music, and the annual outrages upon the long suffering Messiah...
Despite several solvable problems, the Bach Society Orchestra is a delightful ensemble. Unpretentious, committed to an absolutely essential and shamefully neglected part of the orchestral repertoire, and capable of excellent work, the Society is unquestionably the equal of any musical organization at Harvard...