Word: equaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...full, is a favorite. For the most part the prisoners think U.S. newspaper stories are accurate, although dyed-in-the-wool Nazis are deeply suspicious, and seize on the most trifling mistake as proof that the U.S. press is full of lies. They listen to news broadcasts with equal distrust...
...wounded in exchange for one square mile of land. The 2nd and 4th Marine Divisions and the 27th Army Division suffered 16,500 casualties to win Saipan's 75 square miles. Iwo Jima is smaller (eight square miles) than Saipan, and its casualty ratio will hardly equal Tarawa's, but at the end of a fortnight's bloody fighting there is no longer any doubt that Iwo is the most difficult amphibious operation in U.S. history...
...Pensacola last week, Snead had strokes to spare. On one sizzling round (the second), he posted eleven pars, six birdies, one eagle to equal the course record of 64. His tourney-winning 267-a fabulous 21 under par-put him seven strokes up on Nelson, who came from nowhere to finish second. It also gave him a five-four lead over Nelson in the winter winner's race. Any golfer who could do that required no sympathy for his bad back and worse hook...
...Julian West had no criticism to make of the future as he found it. Abounding in creature comforts, filled with music and labor-saving machinery, its principal characteristic was efficiency. All the national income was pooled, and each citizen received an equal share. All industry was run by the national government; state governments had disappeared. Each industry was organized along military lines. Each citizen, from 21 to 45, worked at a trade of his own choosing. (The alternative: bread & water.) At 45, all were retired, and the years thereafter were the best and happiest part...
...great and good alliance with strong and courageous Soviet Russia. . . . We are desirous of signing one some day with brave old England, as soon as she may be willing to agree to what is vital to us concerning Germany." But Britain will have to accept France as an equal partner in western Europe. ¶ France intends to make regional alliances with its immediate neighbors-Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg. ¶France wants to join a world peace organization-but not until the war is over both in Europe and in the Pacific. Reason for the delay: not until then will France...