Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four basic parts: 1) compressor, 2) combustion chamber, 3) turbine, 4) the cone-shaped jet through which the expanding gases that drive the plane are expelled. Because its operation, like a gun's recoil, is based on Newton's third law of motion (every action has an equal and opposite reaction), engineers prefer to call it the "reaction engine...
...only hurt the cause of the Southern Negro," according to Edstrom, "if you holler about social equality. That," he explains, "is a thing you can't legislate. I'm afraid that if we don't approach the problems in the right way," he warns, "we're going to have conflict, bloody conflict." The Courier-Journal has consistently campaigned for equal political and economic opportunities for Negroes, supporting several of their candidates in state and local elections...
Assured of such handsome Federal aid, he reasoned, states which now cling to weekly benefits averaging as low as $7 a week could and would raise their scales. Lester estimated the total Federal cost of his program as about $1,250,000,000, a sum equal to what the Government now spends for five days...
...sacred shrine, the Kaaba) nearly tugged out their Prophetlike beards. For is it not written in the Koran: "It is for women to act as their husbands act towards them. ... Yet are the men a step above them?" But 100 women, representing seven Middle Eastern countries, had demanded equal rights for Arab women...
...leaning heavily on plumes, misty laces and shimmering silks, set out to romanticize the subject and present him in a softly flattering light as a person of distinction. The American who sat for his portrait often got a blunt, matter-of-fact estimate of his character from a social equal...