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Word: equalness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to the lamas and to state tradition, this was still insufficient proof of the child's identity. For a more definitive test, the monks placed several of the deceased Dalai Lama's personal possessions before the boy, along with an equal number of skillfully-wrought replicas. The child chose the right item every time. Finally, the lamas examined the child for the eight birthmarks that reputedly identify the Dalai Lama. From large protruding ears and marks like a tiger's skin on his legs to two vestigal bits of skin on his shoulders representing the third and fouth arms...

Author: By Elizabeth E. Ryan, | Title: Hello Dalai | 10/24/1979 | See Source »

...race long enough for their man to get some "fence-sitting" money. Strapped for funds, Brown has had to delay formally declaring his candidacy. Otherwise he will lose local television exposure; as long as he is a noncandidate, stations can interview him without being forced to supply equal time to declared candidates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: More of Less | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...poisonous portrayal of the early Republic in a fantastic tale of corruption, greed and sex." In a chapter entitled "The Diet of a Ravenous Public," Handlin rips the 'factional' historians to shreds. He assails Ragtime, calling "racial prejudice the crutch on which the book limps along," and renders equal treatment to critics that lapped...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: A Tale of Woe | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...That's what I love--nobody expects you to be more than you are, you know. That kind of tolerance--I didn't know it existed. I mean if you're not equal to facing everything there...you're traitor. To the human cause, justice, humanity, the lot--there's nothing else...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Marching Away from Pretoria | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

Council candidates all agreed that the city needs more police protection to combat crime against women on city streets, and most said they favored continuing the city's boycott on spending public funds to attend conventions in states that haven't ratified the Equal Rights Amendment...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Candidates Discuss Affirmative Action | 10/17/1979 | See Source »

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