Word: equality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grasshopper, which weighs only one twenty-fifth of a gram, develops "the astounding power of some 20,000 grams per gram of its own weight," or ten times the power of human muscles working at top speed. Says Hoyle: "The only known muscles in the whole animal world that equal this power are the shell-closing muscles of the clam-but the grasshopper's muscles work far more rapidly...
...treated you as a human being?" splutters Lord Loam (Cecil Parker), the parlor pink. "Most certainly not!" gasps Butler Crichton (Kenneth More), the pantry tyrant. "Your treatment to me has always been as it should be." When Lord Loam insists, Crichton persists: "Any satisfaction I might derive from being equal [to my master] would be ruined by the footman being equal...
Matched Histories. Cerebral palsy afflicts one child out of 215 born in the U.S. But it is a catchall label for a wide variety of symptoms, and it may have an equal variety of causes. Symptoms range from spasticity (generalized rigidity of the muscles), chorea (sudden and jerky purposeless movements), athetosis (slower and more writhing movements), grimacing and lack of balance...
...Lubar Steinberg, the first serious writing he had ever published, Israel's leading humorist, Ephraim Kishon, said that "this nightmare of yours is shared by many of us." Editorialized the daily Haaretz: "The basic question is whether Israel is a state of free citizens whose rights are equal without discrimination of race, or whether it is the preserve only of those who have entered the covenant of our father Abraham. The answer of the rabbinate and the religious parties is unequivocal. The fence that separated Aharon Steinberg from the other dead of Pardes Hanna symbolizes an outlook: that...
...executives polled by Dun & Bradstreet snorted bullishly over 1958 prospects: 91% expected that their sales would exceed or equal 1957; eight out of ten thought profits would be better or at least as good; only 1% expected to cut production. In Hollywood, Fla. 1,050 conventioneers at the Investment Bankers Association predicted that easier money will bolster the slump in capital investments, that record personal incomes will lift consumer buying to new peaks, that low inventories will be rebuilt and spur manufacturing. To cool down recession talk, the New York Federal Reserve Bank made one of its rare public predictions...