Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Equal Time...
...challenge to each is not so much to defeat his nearest rival as the task of finding a solution to what ails the nation. And it is up to the middle-aged political veterans who are vying for the presidency to persuade an unprecedentedly skeptical electorate that they are equal to the mission...
...game continues across the green felt table that is located precisely athwart the cease-fire line. A battle of flagpoles once went on for weeks as each side tried to have its flag stand higher in the meeting room. They finally agreed that only miniature flagpoles, both of precisely equal size, would be placed on the table, but North Korea has put a spike point atop its tiny table pole to gain a minute one-inch height advantage. Language across the table, which is predictably tough, reached a peak last year when the senior member on the U.N. side...
Even in today's big war of divisions, the Green Berets have somehow man aged to remain individualists; occasionally they come up with a grandstand play that is hard to equal. Last spring, for example, two elephants were needed in a remote village to work on a new sawmill. The Berets tranquilized the animals, set them on a free-swinging platform and helicoptered them to an otherwise inaccessible location...
Through Disorder. Economist Barbara Ward deplored the "air of platitude, lassitude and repetition" that infuses the affluent world's "war" against poverty. She called for a tax on developed countries equal to 1% of their gross national products. The lien-$17 billion-would go directly to poor lands, and would amount to only one-third of the West's annual increase in combined G.N.P., Dr. Ward contended. "It just means getting richer slower between Christmas and Easter, and that includes Lent. Let us tuck away in one corner of our Christian memory the delicious fact that the English...