Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military power, for downrating beyond reason the present-day U.S. ability to keep the peace through unequaled sea and air strength. On an Administration all too satisfied with things as they are, Sputnik forced a review of policies and the uncomfortable discovery that the major shortcomings lay in top-level decision-making and policy-planning. To diplomats the 119 days provided a soul-searing object lesson that free-world diplomacy, for all of its ideals, cannot be successful without clearly evident U.S. strength...
...woman. Macy's alone takes 112 subscriptions. So influential is Women's Wear that a four-line story on a back page about a dress that is selling well will bring dozens of inquiring phone calls from retailers around the country. Women's Wear does its level best to wield its power impersonally, never disparages any style, and like the other Fairchild publications runs no editorials. The result is a paper that is as plain as gingham and just as reliable...
...House listened with hushed respect. "I am not here to criticize my colleagues or indeed my political opponents," he went on. As between the bank rate that he had raised to the highest level (7%) in 37 years and the physical controls that Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell advocates to check inflation, he confessed: "Neither of these works very well." Taxation, he said, "has already reached a point where I should think most men would admit it is inflationary in its effect...
...around on easels to catch the changing light, to Manhattan's glass-walled Museum of Modern Art, which shuts out all direct sunlight, Capodimonte Director Molajoli chose an elaborate mixture of the best of all systems, combined natural with both filament and fluorescent light, automatically mixed to maintain level, shadowless lighting...
LOCKHEED ELECTRA turboprop transport, on order by nine airlines, looks better and better. Prototype, which flew 56 days ahead of schedule, has hit nearly 460 m.p.h. in level flight, 25 m.p.h. faster than expected, normally lands in 1,900 ft., well under guaranteed airport performance...