Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Korea: unrestricted U.S. bombing of the North impeded transport, destroyed virtually 100% of industry, 40% of all housing; U.S. pilots downed opposing MIGs at victory ratio of 11 to 1. Viet Nam: selective bombing has destroyed 34 bridges and some oil tanks, but industrial complexes around Hanoi and Haiphong remain untouched; of the few opposing MIGs, five have been shot down in air combat as against the loss of two U.S. jets...
...Then there was the supporting cast. Spooked by reports that followers of the late Malcolm X planned to avenge their leader's death by assassinating Black Muslim Clay, some 300 Lewiston police, county sheriffs, state troopers, firemen and civil defense workers milled around the arena in a ratio of roughly one lawman for every 14 fans...
...intellectual, the quiet, original thinker who has the acumen and the courage of original thought, still receives only a trifle of the recognition paid to the pseudo intellectuals who often dominate the scene. If those criteria are applied, it becomes doubtful whether present-day America can boast a population ratio of intellectuals 7.5 times as large as that attributed to the Greece of Socrates and Plato...
...refused in late March, but Dietz's lawyer is resubmitting it on the grounds that the trial over the annex's alleged zoning violations has been moved up until June. Dietz, a local property owner, claims that the annex, as currently designed, exceeds the permissible 4-1 ratio of floor area to plot and does not allow enough space for an off-street truckloading dock...
...conclude that Cliffies are less adventurous than other girls," Vaughn Morrill III '66, an organizer of "Operation Match" said. "They're either satisfied with the comfortable four-to-one ratio here or disdainful of love-by-machine. It doesn't matter. More girls than men applied anyway...