Word: equality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Free nations, of which we are only one-and though we may be the strongest, we are simply another equal among equals -cannot make decisions respecting other free nations unilaterally or bilaterally with the Soviets. There has got to be an agreement in which the affected countries must be participants . . . We have established the NATO association realizing that the defense of the free world must work by cooperation when confronted by a monolith of force and power so great as the strength of the Communist area . . . We must not make a unilateral proposal that we go out, or that...
...Lincoln to an Illinois friend concerning the merits of re-electing a Congressman, Richard Yates, later governor of Illinois. The malicious word had spread that Yates had the same weakness that was to create complaints about General Ulysses S. Grant. Wrote Honest Abe, in endorsing Yates: "Other things being equal, I would much prefer a temperate man to an intemperate one. Still, I do not make my vote depend absolutely upon the question of whether a candidate does or does not taste liquor...
Applause for Dr. Soper came from the chairman of the Equal Rights for Women Association and the secretary of the International Committee of Mothers, but Mrs. Juanita Frances, chairman of the Married Women's Association, was "quite shocked." Children, she maintained, should have fathers to help bring them...
Syracuse University's Dr. G. Arnold Cronk ran a similar test, found that from either type of tablet the aspirin gets into the blood at just the same speed, gives equal pain relief equally fast, and the relief lasts the same length of time...
...have been trying to do those things against the background of having to repay debt abroad during the next eight years of a total equal to the whole of our existing reserves ... of seeking to conduct a great international banking business, of sustaining our position as one of the world's major overseas investors. Over twelve years we have slithered from one crisis to another. It has meant a pound sterling which has sunk from 20 shillings to twelve. It is a picture of a nation in full retreat from its responsibilities. That is not the path to greatness...