Word: equalling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some 200 witnesses, including psychiatrists, scientists, soldiers, students, teachers, youth leaders, then drew up a hair-raising preview of World War III as a basis for their recommendations. In the preview: atom-bombing planes flying at supersonic speed; chemical and bacteriological warfare; destruction laid down overnight that would equal the destruction in Germany after three and a half years of saturation bombing...
...second stage of the training would allow a number of options, which in length and intensity would equal at least six months. The options: 1) another six months' training, after which a trainee would have discharged all his obligations short of war; 2) enlistment in one of the regular services for a minimum of two years; 3) enrollment in one of the service academies; 4) enrollment in the National Guard or the Organized Reserve with 48 evenings a year of armory drill and two weeks in summer camp, for three years; 5) enrollment in college R.O.T.C.s...
...dream is Nigerian independence. He would like to see it come in a 15-Year Plan: ten years of equal British-Nigerian government, then five years of Nigerian government with Britain standing by. Next to that he wants the country developed industrially. He doubts that the present-day Briton will do it. "The type of Britons who come . . . now," he says, "are not as intelligent as those who came before. Either we have progressed or they have degenerated...
What Hath He Wrought. The Colonel is not sure that his own equal in military knowledge has existed since Hannibal. In February 1942, when a onetime Tribune employee asked him how he could campaign so hatefully against the Administration when the nation was at war, McCormick wrote him in reply...
...always lost." But he always came back for more. One day he came back with a heavy lock dangling at the end of a strap. He knocked out two of his attackers and the rest beat it. Billy learned the lesson: plainly, all men are not created equal-but there are equalizers...