Word: equilibriums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small party to follow a policy of "Yes, but"-a policy that Pompidou once characterized as "between two chairs, and I hope they fall on their derrière." Giscard landed on his feet, and now promises to proceed more subtly than before in restoring "economic and financial equilibrium" with a balanced budget, an end to exchange controls, and a fixed rate of economic expansion. Internationally, he advocates Common Market membership for Britain and a European "pool" of gold, foreign exchange and International Monetary Fund credits...
...plot springs from his search for moral equilibrium. Each of the characters closest to him seems to have found a partial solution. His partner, Blueboy, a shrewd, gamy con man, will play whatever role the whites expect of him with a comic and cynical flourish. His mistress, Kelly Sims, a college-educated chemist, bravely but quixotically banks her hopes for Negro progress on intellect. His eventual wife, Lila, a wise but unlettered country girl, has the "black granite" endurance that was once popularly thought to be the essential quality of the Negro race...
Sooner or later, the great migration had to taper off. After a quarter of a century, the revolution in agricultural techniques finally produced a kind of demographic equilibrium. One farmer now feeds and clothes 42 other people. His spread averages 377 acres, 30% larger than a decade ago. And this evolution has ensured his survival...
...Lincoln was the heroic leader whose stewardship was passionate, argumentative and highly political. Grover Cleveland was a mixture of the two, not moving forward at a rapid rate, but not stepping very far backward either, expending just enough energy, in Hyman's words, "to maintain the existing kinetic equilibrium...
Lion captain Roger Walaszek led the assault with seven points and by the time the Crimson had regained enough equilibrium to call time out, it was behind, 62-42. Harvard never got close again...