Word: equilibrium
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...Iraqi nationalists had been put on trial in an anti-Communist military court; simultaneously hints went out that, if everyone behaved, there might be sweeping amnesties for some of the several hundred nationalists languishing in Iraq's prisons. At week's end, Kassem was still maintaining his equilibrium, but his grisly balancing act lacked some of its old assurance...
Such a balancing, however, seems an unstable equilibrium; it depends very much on a great deal of restraint and tact by both the opponents of religion and the advocates...
...Chief George V. Allen to address the 50th anniversary session of the Comité France-Amerique. Said Allen: "We believe General de Gaulle epitomizes much of the greatness, the strength of purpose and the high dignity of France. We are immensely heartened by the restored political stability and economic equilibrium of France." He praised "your initiative in creating another community, that of the eleven African states and Madagascar with France, which has also aroused widespread acclaim...
Such a balancing, however, seems an unstable equilibrium; it depends very much on a great deal of restraint and tact by both the opponents of religion and the advocates...
...impulse. He alternated between exhausting stretches of work and months-long alcoholic bouts. But as an artist he believed in being both cool and controlled, recommended billiards as a fine training for any beginner. "On that green surface and within that frame." Carles said, "he will find the equilibrium, symmetry, triangulation, direction, motion and restraint...