Word: equalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shots are being fired in the present Battle of Italy; but if the Communists win Italy in a free election, that will have an effect equal to the fall of Singapore and Manila in World War II. It would take years and billions of dollars and thousands of lives to retrieve the loss of Italy...
...therefore, been necessary to import a visitor from outside to give the various geographical seminars on that country. When Mr. Ackerman's appointment ends, the geographical study of China will be placed on the same basis. It will be very difficult, indeed, to find a man of equal ability...
...members of the Southern Governors' Conference loudly announced that things were all wrong. Seven members (six governors and Virginia's Senator Byrd, who represented Governor Tuck) voted to "fight to the last ditch" against the nomination or election of Harry Truman or any other candidate advocating equal rights for Negroes...
...entire High Command of the Red Army. He gave his name to two of the Red Terror's maddest years (1936-38), the "Yezhovshchina." In the Yezhovshchina, the most fantastic denunciations were accepted at face value by the NKVD; no one was safe. Terror was completely indiscriminate, torture equal to anything that went on in Nazi concentration camps. The papers referred to Yezhov almost as lyrically as to Stalin: "Our hero, our father, who destroyed the vipers' nests...
...bank built an elegant parlor for women, where they could "cut coupons and eat bonbons with equal relish." Off the parlor was a room with scissors, threaded needles, hairpins, violet water, lavender salts, scented soaps. This leisurely atmosphere paid off in accounts from prim matrons and black-bonneted dowagers. Women still flock to the bank's Victorian quarters with their paneling, candelabra and the fireplace whose log fire glows cheerily in winter...