Word: portion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strike retaliation weapon," such as Minuteman or Polaris, must be able to withstand enemy attack, and have all its intricate systems, including communications, intact when the pounding is over. Said McNamara: "Our missile force is deployed so as to assure that under any conceivable Soviet first strike, a substantial portion of it would remain in firing condition. Most of the land-based portion of the force has been hardened as well as dispersed...
Though they call their music jazz, the Okayistes lean heavily on a hypnotic beat that is traditionally African mixed with a little twist, some of Ghana's syncopated High Life, and a sizable portion of swaying Latin American rhythms. The combination earns them about $15,000 a month. "We ourselves like pure jazz best," says one Okayiste, "but our people don't like it. If we only played jazz, we'd soon go broke." Always on the lookout for old African tribal melodies, band members often go into the bush to watch village dances, rework the tunes...
After his talk Keppel said that Title Six of the Administration Civil Rights bill would "go a long way" towards giving Negroes better educational opportunities by practically insuring desegration in all schools receiving federal money. Keppel predicted that passage of this portion of the bill would greatly facilitate federal aid to education measures by removing the perennial segregation issue...
...chaplains in the armed services, prayers in legislative bodies, tax exemptions for religious institutions, religious mottoes on currency or the "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. Wrote Justice Arthur Goldberg: "Neither the state nor this court can or should ignore the significance of the fact that a vast portion of our people believe in and worship God, and that many of our legal, political and personal values derive historically from religious teachings...
...lodging places, theaters, sports arenas, retail stores, restaurants, lunch counters, etc., that meet any of four conditions: 1) that the establishment's goods or services are available "to a substantial degree to interstate travelers" (just what was meant by "substantial" was not specified); 2) that a "substantial" portion of its goods move in interstate commerce; 3) that its activities or operations otherwise "substantially affect interstate travel or the interstate movement of goods in commerce"; 4) that it is an "integral part" of an establishment covered by the bill-as, for example, a local concession within a national chain store...