Word: portion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What the cold war is heading toward, McNamara continued, is "an era when it will become increasingly improbable that either side could destroy a sufficiently large portion of the other's strategic nuclear force, either by surprise or otherwise, to preclude a devastating retaliatory blow. This may result in mutual deterrence, but it is still a grim prospect. As the arms race continues, the possibility of a global catastrophe, either by miscalculation or design, becomes ever more real. But until we can find a safe and sure road to disarmament, we must continue to build our own defenses...
...efforts to grapple with tax delinquents sometimes gets the agency into comically grotesque postures. The wife of a rich Texan got mad at her husband, told the IRS that he had been finagling on his tax returns. As an informer, she got a $50,000 payment -a portion of the extra tax the Government collected. Understandably, she did not want to tell her spouse about the payoff, so she failed to report it on their joint income return. The husband found out all about it when the IRS jumped on her for tax evasion...
...said Yamasaki, were no longer enough. "My premise is that delight and reflection are ingredients which must be added. Unquestionably there is delight in our best new buildings, but this delight is in structural clarity, in proportion, and in elegant details and materials, and these characteristics offer but a portion of the delight which we have experienced in the buildings of the past. Sunlight and shadow, form, ornament, the element of surprise are little-explored fields, barely understood by today's architects." Since then, Yamasaki has done his best to achieve "the joy of surprise - the experience of moving...
Boston developer and attorney Samuel P. Coffman revealed last night that he would sell or lease the University a large portion of the Bennett Street MTA yards if his bid on the property is accepted by the MTA Board of Trustees...
During the previous season at Shochem, in 1960, the archaeologists reconstructed a portion of the courtyard of the temple and restored the great sacred pillar to the spot where it stood as late as the 12th century B.C. in front of the temple. However there was no reason to believe that this place in the courtyard was the city's earlier sacred area...