Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gospel" (more than 70%), and that the U.S. should put the needs of underdeveloped lands ahead of its own desires in giving technical and economic aid (82%). In each case, the percentage of laymen who went along was much smaller. Widest disparity: wasting time, an indulgence that only about half of the laymen consider sinful...
...only a persistent memory that mars the duels for aficionados; in 1947, it was Dominguin, then 21, who taunted the peerless Manolete out of retirement, forced him to such daring that he was finally killed by a giant Miura bull. Watching the two matadors, still aching from their half-healed wounds, many a Spaniard wonders if Dominguin or Ordoñez will yet risk too much in defense of art and honor...
...average, two points below the record June level of 155%. But activity in most other durable-goods industries increased, and output of nondurable goods reached new highs in July. Last week Radio Corp. of America announced it had cut its usual two-week plant vacations in half to keep up with orders for TV sets, transistor radios and stereo equipment...
...20th century's major political miracles that Poland today is "a one-time satellite whirling half out of its orbit," in daily danger of suppression but also in daily defiance of Moscow. The origin of the miracle is familiar. Ever since Hungary rebelled and Poland came close to open rebellion in 1956, Moscow has known that it could restore total domination over Poland only at the price of bloodshed. At the same time, the Poles have known that, if they sought total freedom, Moscow would not hesitate to pay the price. This potentially lethal balance is the basis...
...after years of imprisonment at the hands of the Stalinists, a more humane side emerged. He undertook to introduce democracy in the Communist Party and to build "humane socialism" (which Gibney describes as a "wedding of modern Communist practice with an idea of the rule of law, half rediscovered"). But more and more his promises have given way to renewed repression, not only because Moscow and its Polish followers want it that way, but because Gomulka has discovered that a little liberty is a dangerous thing: "Gresham's Law is not true of political coinage - for the customs...