Word: equal
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...commanding the 37th Battalion of General George S. Patton's 4th Armored Division, Abrams was Patton's point man, led the victorious Allied sweep across Europe from France to Czechoslovakia in 1944-45. Abrams was the only tanker, in fact, who Patton ever admitted might be his equal. In the lead tank of the 37th sat Abrams himself, often far out in front of the nearest U.S. units that could provide aid if his tanks got into trouble. "I like to be out on the point where there's nothing but me and the goddam Germans," growled...
...killed King was sick," wrote Max Lerner, "and there are a lot of sick people in America. But it is folly to jump from this to a total indictment of a total nation." The wave of mourning that has swept the nation, continued Lerner, is "composed of equal parts of authentic sorrow, of guilt feelings and the fake-hypocritical. There are blacks who, after his death, made a mystique of destroying the cities he wanted to save, and there are whites so guilt-ridden and impassioned that their feeling about the burning cities is 'Let them burn.' " Expression...
...Washington. She gained early notoriety as a Catholic controversialist with a 1964 article in the Saturday Evening Post called "Why I Believe in Birth Control," in which she argued that the church's ban on contraception was injurious to a healthy marriage. More recently, she has argued with equal vigor in favor of relaxing the church's ban on divorce and remarriage...
...required level, Lytton borrowed through his holding company and lent them the money. Even so, those reserves last year fell close to the 5% called for by law. At that point, state and federal authorities forced Lytton to hand over $45 million of savings accounts (along with an equal amount of loans with good repayment records) to two competitor S&Ls. At the same time, the authorities blocked Lytton from using profits of the subsidiary S&Ls to meet his holding-company debts. Plans to raise $12 million capital in the stock market went awry. To raise funds to satisfy...
DUANE EDDY is an unusual inclusion, but his twangy guitar conveys an individual expressiveness the equal of any voice. The rocking guitar of Rebel Rouser and Movin' and Groovin' is one thing, but the isolated echo that haunts The Lonely One and Because They're Young is an instrumental experience...