Word: equilibrium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...respects to the other driver. "What's your name and address?" he demanded. The embarrassed reply: the Duke of Edinburgh. "Then," Poluck reported, "something inside me brain clicked, and I looked up and said, 'Oh, oh, so it is!' Then I lost my equilibrium. ... I saw the Princess smiling inside the car, so I raised my hat to her and she nodded back. Then they drove away...
...float on ice. She turns effortlessly and unexpectedly-only clever performers can manage that-and never has to push to get up momentum for an eight or a loop-change-loop. She always seems to be enjoying herself, and as a result people always enjoy watching her. She has equilibrium, charm and style. A U.S. skating judge, who likes to define the quality of a skater in one word ("push" is his word for Sonja), puzzled over Barbara Ann a while, then described her quality as "femininity...
...undergraduate's existence were not sufficiently plagued with problems of maintaining equilibrium on ice-covered sidewalks and eluding skidding vehicles, he now must consider the possibility of awakening come morning to find his car missing from its customary illegal berth at the curb...
...wrathful over Russia's "calculated campaign of vilification and distortion of American motives in foreign affairs." The U.S. had one objective in Europe: restore Europe's peace and economic equilibrium. With that objective he was going to London to sit with Molotov, Bevin and Bidault on the fate of Germany and Austria. "My purpose [is] to concentrate solely on finding an acceptable basis of agreement to terminate the present tragic stalemate," he said...
...death rate was still high (up to 90% in some forms of the disease). And on many types of T.B. the drug had no appreciable effect at all. Most discouraging finding of all was that streptomycin, in the doses tried so far, is definitely poisonous. It attacks the equilibrium centers in the brain or the inner ear and may cause permanent deafness. Doctors consider, it too dangerous to use in mild cases...