Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PROUD TOWER, by Barbara Tuchman. In The Guns of August Historian Tuchman presented a perceptive and appalling analysis of the military catastrophe of 1914. In this sequel, she steps back a few years and examines with equal sharpness a luxurious and unheeding Europe as it drifted toward disaster...
...explains that China has bad little experience dealing with allies on an equal basis or with non-Asian powers on an equal level. Noting that china has always been the "center of civilization" in East Asia, Fairbank says that it has served as the cultural and political model for smaller states like Korea and Vietnam...
...feminist; I'm a human being," was the answer Mrs. Gandhi gave last week to the inevitable question about how it feels to be India's first woman Prime Minister. At another point, she archly expLalned that under the Indian constitution, all persons are equal, regardless of sex. She is, however, vitally interested in improving the lot of Indian women. "If you study history," she once said, "you will find that where women have risen, that country attained a high position, and wherever they remained dormant, that country slipped back...
...somewhat questionable stranger at a bar, this raffish, somewhat questionable book glibly rattles off all sorts of odd and fascinating facts about the manufacture and use of liquor. The word "spirits" was originally applied to the alcohol vapor created during the distillation process. The "proof" of any whisky is equal to double the amount of alcohol it contains; 100 proof means 50% alcohol by volume, the other half being distilled water, coloring and the like. "Proof" originally was a place where gunpowder was tested. Early distillers adopted the term, because they used powder to gauge the strength of liquor. They...
...noted that economists have estimated that $27 billion are wasted annually by discriminatory employment. The figure equal 3.7 per cent of the United States...