Word: greater
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lemnitzer, who had doubted détente and disapproved of the military dilution of NATO all along. The ten Soviet divisions that Russia has moved permanently into Czechoslovakia have "significantly altered" the balance of power in Europe, he said. He urged the allies to put their forces in a greater state of readiness, to bolster their reserve units and revamp their mobilization plans...
...money that the Europeans, protected for nearly 20 years by the U.S. nuclear umbrella, have always been loath to spend. In his 16th and farewell appearance before the ministers, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk was as candid as Lemnitzer, telling the European partners that they must carry a greater share of the burden. Rusk and U.S. Defense Secretary Clark Clifford offered only an estimated $50 million in fresh U.S. aid. They also promised to return to Europe for maneuvers two infantry brigades and four tactical Air Force squadrons that had been repatriated to the U.S. last year, to replace...
Long Shot. For all the meticulous planning, NASA acknowledges that Apollo 8 involves greater risks than any of the previous manned space flights. Not only will the spacecraft be as many as three days away from a safe landing (v. no more than three hours in earth-orbiting missions), but it will be entirely dependent on its own propulsion system to break out of lunar orbit. If that lone engine should falter, the astronauts would be stranded, circling the moon with absolutely no hope of rescue...
...that he had a special relationship to the earth: he was attracted to it. It has been only in the last couple of hundred years that we've had some idea that the earth is in some small way attracted to us, though directly in proportion to its far greater importance. It is convenient when considering the throwing of yourself out of an airplane to ignore the equal and opposite force your body exerts on the earth. Especially when there could be an equal or greater number of people jumping out of planes on the other side of the earth...
...watch the film just for itself, without any greater meaning, and that is easy to do. The characters in the movie are all the kind of people you would never think twice about to understand. None will even remotely remind you of Julie Christie; and there are at least a half a dozen characters who absorb the role that John Wayne plays on the American screen...