Word: portions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...owner. He calls it a "sweat equity" in which prospective homeowners can throw in their own labor to reduce their monthly mortgage payments. Under the Percy Plan, if a homeowner should rise above a middle-income level of $6,000 a year, he would subsequently contribute a commensurately greater portion of his monthly mortgage payment to the federation's revolving fund...
...convertible cargo-passenger plane. Unlike its chief rival, the Douglas DC-9, which has its engines mounted at the rear of the fuselage for a quieter ride, the 737 has its jets slung beneath the wings. The result, claim Boeing engineers, is a lighter plane with a roomier aft portion of the cabin. Both planes can make money with only a quarter of their seats filled, come equipped with their own boarding stairs, ground airconditioning, and jet-starting units to keep intermediate stops brief. The planes thus satisfy the airlines' most immediate need: low-cost jets to replace obsolescent...
...Communist portion of Laos borders on both North and South Viet Nam, and is ruled by the local Red Pathet Lao. aided by an estimated 30,000 North Vietnamese combat troops who man the Ho Chi Minh trail's Lao tian sections. In a conversation with a reporter for the New York Times, Prince Souvanna admitted that the Lao tian armed forces (composed of Royalists and neutralists) are too small and weak to interfere with this massive Red force. Even so, Laos does not want U.S. or any other Western help in the matter, "because this would mean more...
...early days after the accession to power by the communists, both in Russia and later in the other countries of Eastern Europe, there appeared to be considerable enthusiasm exhibited by a significant portion, at least, of the younger generation. Although morale among the youth sagged at times, the revolution, the Civil War, and the period of the first Five-Year Plan sparked considerable youthful idealism in Soviet Russia. Whatever enthusiasm had been generated, however, soon wore off by the mid-thirties. Continuous forced effort with little reward, and a stifling of self-expression in the arts and elsewhere after Stalin...
...vast natural grave of Babi Yar-Jews, Soviet prisoners of war, partisans, workers, even a local soccer team that imprudently defeated an all-star German army eleven. Such ultimate impartiality made it possible for postwar Soviet policy, with its own vein of antiSemitism, to try to suppress the Jewish portion of the Babi Yar massacre-until 1961, when Poet Evgeny Evtushenko memorialized the Kiev Jews in burning verse. He was rebuked by the Soviet literary Establishment, but his own rebuke, in the poem's first two lines, was lastingly effective...