Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sick because he was a Congregationalist. Congregationalists are fat and sick, I am sure, in about the same proportion as members of any other religious group. However, if your readers infer that Casper became a superior golfer because he was first a Congregationalist, they may be nearer the truth. Congregationalists are often fine golfers, as I can attest on many a sunny Sunday morning...
Diplomatically, Klein saw the decision to drop the bomb as a wrong one. He cited the lesson of the Korean War where we leveled the North without moving our opponents any nearer to the peace table. As for the timing of the escalation, Klein speculated that it was a domestic move on Johnson's behalf, and that the President feels this is the "tidy war" the Gallup Polls favor...
...submarines. It will concentrate much of its effort on learning to take on and eliminate this threat, partly by perfecting sensing devices and new weapons for anti-submarine warfare. It will also seek to increase its nuclear-powered force of attack submarines, now numbering more than 50, to something nearer...
...poorer states a bigger share. Many experts challenge this plan, insisting that it would be better to cut federal taxes and let the states do their own collecting. Says former Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges, a onetime governor of North Carolina: "A plan like Heller's would come nearer to sapping the remaining initiative of the states than anything else I know of." In any case, no plan to redistribute or cut federal income taxes stands much chance of surviving so long as the war in Viet Nam lasts...
...tree shrew, can be mass bred in captivity, it will be as inexpensive as the rat as a laboratory animal. And it is much nearer to human beings on the evolutionary scale...