Word: leveler
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Actually, the London ring achieved other goals. In the best planned towns like Harlow, all of Ebeneezer Howard's ideas in Garden Cities of Tomorrow (1902) were finally implemented. Harlow has a surrounding greenbelt, separation of housing and industry inexpensive garden apartments, and a high level of community facilities. Some of the other new towns, however, resemble housing projects more than Howard's ideal city...
...divided into classes graded from 1 up to A and pitted only against their peers. Spotting dogs who have just moved up or down on the scale is, however, one way of judging their chances. These estimates and comparisons of overall records allow handicapers to function above the humiliation level, and a "consensus" estimate is made on each of the races in the handy 35-cent program sold at the track...
...that, of course, is changed, or almost changed. A trace of the rogue remains in Nadav. On routine postwar patrols, he twice screams over the kibbutz at tree-top level, just to say hello. And despite his open smile, there is something haunting in Nadav's agate eyes: a cool measuring, a cruelty, perhaps a ruthlessness. It is well disguised, but you feel better with him than against...
...United States and Latin American to bring Cuba's economy to a grinding halt, to "prove it can't work"--despite the blockade--the renegade island's economy appears to be moving rapidly forward. Reports indicate that by next spring, Cuba's GNP will at last surpass its 1958 level...
Huntington doubts that the Administration is now prepared to make any new initiatives, and predicts that the war will continue on the same level until after the November '68 elections. However, if the Republican Party nominates Reagan or Nixon as he expects them to, he adds, the North Vietnamese might decide that it would be to their advantage to come to terms with Johnson before the election, on the chance that a more militant hawk might reach the White House...