Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaullist Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte announced that if he were in office when La Religieuse was finished, he would "not hesitate" to ban it. As it turned out, Peyrefitte was not in office; the job fell to new Secretary of Information Yvon Bourges, but he imposed the ban with equal dispatch...
...significant recent events: the nearly unprecedented life sentence for a white youth who raped a Negro girl in Mississippi; eleven Negroes serving on a jury trying the Negro killers of a white policeman in Georgia. Yet the South has a long way to go before Negroes will have gained "equal justice under...
...Pacific, and has spoken out against a communications experiment that placed a band of metallic needles in orbit. In both cases he was convinced that the shots endangered other scientific projects and observations. When a Soviet space probe actually hit Venus last month, he castigated the Russians with equal vigor. "This is a regrettable event which has annoyed me considerably," he said. "This landing may have seriously affected a future biological survey of the planet's surface...
...drawing will be held today by Houses, with ten girls from each House moving into apartments next year. The number of applications from the three Houses was approximately equal, with North House having slightly fewer than the other...
...toilsome chore of untaming their pampered playmate gives the movie tension, much of it spelled out in pictures more than equal to the rich lion lore contained in the book. In one sequence, an embarrassed Elsa is bullied by a small wart hog, and still cannot understand that she will soon have to kill in order to survive. Later, she lies yawning atop the Land Rover, unmoved by a young bachelor lion laying under a tree. Before Elsa mates successfully, reports the surrogate Mrs. Adamson, "we suffered all the agony of parents whose teen-age daughter...