Word: equalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Symbolic Mourning. Dayan's words only seemed to reinforce the Arabs' equal insistence-at least in public-that the Israelis must evacuate all occupied territory. In fresh artillery firing across the Suez Canal last week, Egyptian troops killed five Israeli soldiers and wounded another 19; Israelis trained their fire on the evacuated buildings of Port Said. On the eastern front, Jordanian and Israeli soldiers continued daily artillery battles across the Jordan River. Israeli casualties were one killed and two wounded...
Agreed, secure boundaries. Both adjectives have equal importance...
...increase in high-energy proton radiation, the astronauts in the vulnerable lunar module would be ordered back to the command module forthwith. They should need no more than four hours-well before the deadly mainstream of protons arrives-to dock with the orbiting command module (whose walls provide protection equal to one-fifth of an inch of lead, more than enough to withstand any anticipated solar outburst). The art of solar forecasting is still so primitive, however, that many flare alerts could turn out to be false alarms...
...play," gave rhetorical expression to one of the dramatic esthetics of musical avant-garde composer John Cage. Our matronly subscriber almost certainly goes to ten concerts, sits on the left, prefers the Steinway, adores podium gymnastics "if not excessive" (meaning horizontal and unconscious), parades at intermission. She listens with equal stolidity to Scheherezade and Mahler's Sixth Symphony, gazes transfixed at the flashing brass, and probably harbors an unbreakable, unreflective, reactionary, insensate detestation of all "modern music" which neither celebrates horses and streams, nor revels in unkept legions of defeaning brass. Henry James exquisitely captures this mood of pasteurized voraciousness...
Time spent at committee meetings is more rewarding than equal time spent in course work or scholarship...