Word: half
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they are largely hidden. Nonetheless, it is generally believed that Moscow's recent defense spending has been roughly equivalent to Washington's military budget (after the $30-billion-a-year cost of Viet Nam is subtracted from the U.S. figure). Yet the Russian gross national product is only about half of the American G.N.P...
...months, the East Germans and Soviets had threatened a new Berlin cri sis if the West Germans persisted in their plan to convene the Federal Republic's electoral college in the western half of the divided former German cap ital. Last week, as 1,023 West German electors met in West Berlin's cavernous East Prussia Hall and by a narrow margin selected Socialist Gustav Heinemann to succeed retiring President Heinrich Lübke as West German head of state, the Communist response was relatively mild and constrained...
Threats from Within. An ad hoc faculty committee promptly took a half-page ad in the Crimson to remind the administration that "any intrusion upon the classroom or any effort to coerce the instructor is an infringement upon the academic rights both of the teacher and of the students who wish to take the course." The list of 108 senior Harvard professors who signed the petition read like a Who's Who of Cambridge intelligentsia, embracing figures from the political right, left and center, and including Samuel Beer, Paul Buck, Oscar Handlin, George Kistiakowsky and Seymour Lipset...
People are now witnessing with their very eyes the fact of black youth finally given a half of a chance at education and jobs and being able to make exotic formulas for bombs and napalm as well as anyone else. As a result of all of this, I think the present set-to might be the last go-round for white supremacy psychological theory...
...Barring the use of half-a-dozen vulgarisms and the last scene, the film was not objectionable, and one might even find it instructive as well as entertaining," he said. He added that the actresses were excellent and had been exploited in the sex scene for box office interests...