Word: equalling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jehovah's Witnesses even to blaspheme his own Catholic Church. He protested the court-martial of the Japanese General Homma, who ordered the Bataan death march, as no trial at all but a "revengeful blood purge." Gradually he withdrew from social life. His heart had never been quite equal to his spiritual drive, nor was it equal to the exacting, wearing work of the court. His Bible was by now so thumbed and tattered he had to wrap it in a towel to keep it intact...
...mention of segregation and equal rights in the same breath seems to me a mistake. And the mistaken impression that it is impossible to have both at the same time is one of the biggest causes of present racial troubles. If I divide my apple with a Negro but refuse to let him bite off my half, I give him an equal right but at the same time I keep segregation. I can't believe an intelligent Negro would object or feel discriminated against...
...first year of Marshall Plan grants the U.S. had tried to spice its aid with a small inducement to encourage intra-European trade. Some $800 million of the U.S. grants were conditional. To get them, the receiving country had to surrender an equal amount of its own currency to a third nation. Thus Britain, in order to receive ECA dollars, made sterling available to France, enabling France to buy British machinery. Such secondary grants were known as drawing rights...
...week, in typical fashion, the U.S. welcomed one of the most extraordinary men of modern times. Albert Schweitzer, medical missionary, theologian, organist, interpreter of Bach's music, and one of the world's great humanitarians, has a life of achievement behind him which few contemporary men can equal. Throughout the civilized world he is also quietly honored as few are honored in their lifetime-for what...
...Equal Status. The agreement cleared away the last diplomatic obstacle in the way of a conference at The Hague, scheduled for Aug. 1. There Dutch and Indonesian delegates would try to set up the United States of Indonesia, a sovereign nation with a status equal to The Netherlands' own under the Dutch crown. The Indonesian Republic (Java) would have a large but not necessarily a dominant voice in the U.S.I. The Dutch hoped that more moderate elements in the other islands would balance Javanese extremists and thus form a basis for an orderly transfer of rule...