Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picked one place that it is not going: through the United Nations. The President rejected Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge's suggestion that a larger share of U.S. aid be channeled through the U.N. Explained Ike: theoretically the idea is sound, but practically the U.N. is much too muddied by international politics for the Lodge idea to work. Our efforts, he said, must be as of now largely on a "bilateral basis." In Paris Secretary Dulles was unwilling to channel aid through NATO lest the act be misconstrued as resurgent Western colonialism. By rejecting these two outlets, the Administration...
Aden Abdullah's rise from houseboy is typical of the changes that are taking place in Somaliland, a territory larger than Italy but with fewer people than Rome. When the British in World War II drove out the Italians who had ruled it since 1892, they found a backward, incredibly poor land populated chiefly by spear-carrying nomadic tribesmen. They seized every scrap of the country's machinery for reparations and tore up its only railroad...
Riding on the crest of a three-game winning wave, the Crimson lacrosse team will probably be drowned tomorrow after the wave rolls down to New Haven and into a powerful Yale squad. The varsity has won its last three contests by increasingly larger margins...
...school frankly admits to eclecticism. Borrowing is only a sensible way to achieve quality. "After all, we would be foolish not to try to learn from the experience of older, larger schools," Sachar believes...
...farmers last year voted to reduce their acreage by 12% and to market no more cotton than they could grow on the reduced acreage. But then they called on every new device of technology to raise yields per acre 22%, and wound up with a total cotton crop 7% larger than the year before...