Word: equal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Seven-Per-Cent Solution, he allied the fictional Sherlock Holmes with the actual Sigmund Freud; in his new film Time After Time, he teams the above-mentioned Ripper and H.G. Wells. Meyer has both written and directed this time, with a happy result: the movie deftly balances equal portions of comedy and suspense...
Despite numerous corner kicks, the Crimson could not capitalize for the gamewinner. The emphasis on keeping pressure on the Amherst defense nearly backfired, as the Lord Jeffs barely missed two chances to clinch the match. Crimson goalkeeper Billy Blood was equal to the task, thwarting the sporadic bursts of the ineffectual Amherst side...
...kind of overprotectiveness irritates many of the women. Says Kathleen Carpenter, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Equal Opportunity: "Your male NCOS aren't comfortable talking about female physiology. The effect is to err on the side of being extremely cautious and remove them from danger. It's the women who fight to stay on duty...
...presidential yacht Sequoia. The tensions of the grim military planning were transformed into exaltation by the liquid refreshments, to the point of some patriotic awkwardness when it was decided that everyone should stand at attention while the Sequoia passed Mount Vernon-a feat not managed by everybody with equal success. On the return to the White House, Nixon invited his convivial colleagues to see the movie Patton. It was the second time he had so honored me. Inspiring as the film no doubt was, I managed to escape for an hour in the middle of it to prepare...
...TIME magazine, with the best will in the world, added to earlier irritations by selecting Nixon and me as joint Men of the Year. I knew immediately how this would go down with my chief, whose limited capacity for forgiveness surely did not include being upstaged (and being given equal billing as Man of the Year with his assistant was tantamount to that). I appealed all the way up the TIME hierarchy' to the editor-in-chief, Hedley Donovan, to take me off the cover. Donovan put an end to it by replying that if my importuning...