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Word: equalize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dartmouth is not as strong as it was, although the Big Green may be fired up after smashing Brown 48-0 last weekend. Harvard's defense seems the equal of the 1966 team and the backfield of Hornblower, Crim, Gatto, Lalich--sounds like a stockbrokerage firm--compares well to the Bobby Leo, Ric Zimmerman ensemble...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: SPORTS of the 'CRIME' | 10/26/1968 | See Source »

...number of missiles does not indicate relative strengths--both countries have been "equal" for most of this decade. Nixon's determination to increase the size of the arsenal is irrelevant as Robert McNamara explained in his final statement of military posture, because...

Author: By Jack D. Burke. jr., | Title: The New Missile Gap | 10/26/1968 | See Source »

...nine white mercenaries, the Fourth spent the first three months of the year operating behind Nigerian lines. Later, it held sectors on the Western front but, outgunned and outmanned by the federals, was forced to retreat. By early September, after a doomed attempt to defend Aba with supplies equal to only a daily average of five rounds of ammunition per man, the Fourth was down to barely 1,000 effectives. Of the 7,000-odd men with whom it had started the campaign, more than 300 had been killed and 2,200 had been wounded. The rest were missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biafra: The Mercenaries | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...three stars of The Wally, Walt and Donn Show shared equal billing, but each performance, like the flight itself, really belonged to the spacecraft commander, Wally Schirra. The impressive efficiency of Apollo 7 and its crew was fitting tribute to the 45-year-old veteran who is making his last flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Two Schirras | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

Then came the Six-Day War. It cost the nation of 2,669,000 people more than $1 billion, and Israel is still paying the price of victory. Since the war, the military budget has more than doubled, to $800 million - equal to 18% of the gross national product - partly because of the burden of defending conquered Arab lands. Just to administer the "new territories" costs $40 million a year. The bills are so big that Israel recently had to cut $100 million from public-works projects in order to meet the government's payrolls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Boomchik | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

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