Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greatly to be hoped" that Muggeridge will remain, as Orwell characterized Dickens, "a free intelligence, a type hated with equal hatred by all the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls...
Other Americans used their missiles to equal effect. Standing off from the Communist cannon fire, they locked on target with radar and sent six more MIGs down in flaming fragments. The entire fight took scarcely 12 minutes-a commentary on the speed of modern warfare-and only one Phantom was damaged (hit by chunks of a disintegrating MIG). When they returned to base, the flyers received well-earned recognition: a third Silver Star for Olds, Distinguished Flying Crosses for the 13 other aviators who had scored...
...military makes every man dependent on his most elemental skills and instincts. All within hearing distance of the whip-lash voice of the master sergeant are equal, and all may be sent--without warning, or justification or purpose--to destruction...
Participatory democracy means the equal right to make decisions affecting one's own life. In concrete terms it means that the Negro community will reject outside help unless specifically requested. Similarly, developing countries might decide to accept foreign aid or adopt Western institutions only when they wanted...
...money shortage worsened, and at one point the nation came uncomfortably close to a money panic. Prime interest rates went up four different times, shooting from 4½% in late 1965 to 6% in mid-1966 - equal to an increase of 33% in twelve months. A wave of hedge-borrowing and money hoarding swept the country. Figuring that money would become steadily scarcer and costlier, corporate treasurers borrowed more than they needed. In June, the Chase Manhattan Bank raised interest rates on most consumer loans for the first time since 1959, to 5½% "discounted" (in effect...