Word: equilibriums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They were all dancers. Cagney propelled himself through space like a bullet or a bull terrier, his torso a few seconds ahead of his legs; anyone without a dancer's equilibrium would have fallen on his face. Fonda was just the opposite: a triumph of convex geometry, his thin body a question mark that ambled at Stepin Fetchit pace toward a girl or a cause...
...battling it out with Abt or Wylie, and it could be extremely close. But the late shift in momentum--and the nagging thought that there may just not be enough CCA voters in the city--indicate it may not come down to the wire at all, that the present equilibrium maintaining its precarious balance on Vellucci, will persist...
...Holland, Belgium, West Germany have been modernizing Turkish forces at a spectacular rate, so that the equilibrium in short order will be undermined...
Sadat was a visionary with a talent for astonishing; he had a Clausewitzian instinct ("For great aims, we must dare great things"). He was also a profound, serene fatalist-which may have been the secret of his equilibrium. Such fatalism might serve others well now. Since 1970, 22 heads of state or government have been assassinated. As Theologian Paul Tillich remarked: "Death has become powerful in our time." -By Lance Morrow
First came a violent, momentary loss of equilibrium. Commentators talked about a Middle Eastern Sarajevo, the single death-by-terror that unhinges everything. Then a stabilizing weariness set in, and even, about this one, a sense of inevitability...