Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Biafran, for defending his freedom against impossible odds, demonstrating that the conscience of the world is a figment of some blind optimist's imagination, and for showing the rest of us heroism and determination equal to anything since the fall of Jerusalem to the Romans...
...nowhere on the issue of a conference table. Hanoi, in fact, has rivaled Saigon in its fussing over the point. For both, the seemingly puerile bickering about furniture represents a vital issue of sovereignty. The Communists are determined to bring the N.L.F. to the table as an equal; Saigon just as adamantly refuses...
...only to look at them in the street. Look at these magnificent girls with their marvelous miniskirts and their straight legs walking along the street full of confidence-and the poor little boys, with their whiskers, desperately trying to show these magnificent mini-skirted creatures that they are her equal. They are more immature than the girl, and if we pass this measure we are going to put a great burden on this boy's shoulders. For heaven's sake, let us give the boy a chance!" Apparently, she was convincing: the Lords passed an amendment only dropping...
...students are making the most of these new opportunities: five years ago, about the only career readily open to Tougaloo's graduates was public school teaching and 80% of them went into it; today only 40% become teachers, while 30% go on to graduate school and an equal number enter Government service...
...returned to Mississippi and became Tougaloo's business manager, rose to the presidency in 1965. "I took over," says Owens, "at a time when new opportunities for Negroes in American life were really coming about. We knew we had to educate our students for a new day of equal opportunity...