Word: equality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...First, a better understanding among the free nations of the world-that is, better and stronger confidence among them; the certainty that their economic and military strength is equal to the test...
...huge brake parachutes billowing from their tails. Throttled down, the planes sedately taxied two miles to the base-operations building, their high-pitched, throbbing scream searing the air. Then, abruptly, the planes were silent, immobile in a neat line, each engine coughing up a puddle of unused fuel. With equal abruptness, 600 onlookers broke into a wild cheer. The three swept-wing planes, carrying 27 crewmen in all, had just completed the first round-the-world nonstop jet flight in record-breaking time: they had flown 24,325 miles in 45 hr. 19 min. at an average speed of about...
Temperature has no effect on radioactivity, so the chilled, lined-up cobalt atoms went right on disintegrating and emitting electrons. According to the parity principle, the electrons should shoot off in equal numbers in both directions along the spin axes of the lined-up nuclei. Any preference by the electrons for either direction would prove that parity is not a real law of nature...
...looking at the original of a painting after knowing it only in copies and prints. Faded colors suddenly leaped to life; obscured details became plain; disjointed lines and phrases connected up. No contemporary could match his subtlety of nuance-the exquisite tenderness, the sweetness, the purity; nor could anyone equal his passion and force. Somehow, when the score demanded it, he seemed to coax a bigger volume of sound from a given number of instruments; he could also reduce the same number to a greater degree of stillness...
...wily Chou was plugging the Socialist brotherhood of little brothers subservient to the Big Soviet Brother; Gomulka wanted a Socialist brotherhood in which all brothers would be equal. Ailing, bespectacled Gomulka was walking a lonely and dangerous road. He had taken a step unprecedented in Communist countries by calling elections this week that would not be truly free, but would at least allow a limited number of alternate choices as candidates from tame fronts, as well as the usual fixed slate of Communists...