Word: redressing
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Will Gaul or Muscovite redress...
...doubt; a ham-handed administration of next fall's unpleasantness will surely do little to quiet these suspicions. Of course, some hardship cases will certainly result from the increase. But these must be cut to a minimum by careful and efficient methods. A torrent of student demands for redress will only indicate that the University has botched its policy. What is now a rather low and indistinct undergraduate grumbling pointed in the general direction of University Hall could easily become an articulate chorus of howls. And this, at any rate, the administration should go far to avoid...
...history. In the atomic bomb-uneasily held-it held title, hopefully exclusive title, to the decisive military weapon. The U.S. had scaled down its once great military establishment, but it had merged its armed services, which promised better military preparation. How long it would take Russian technology to redress the power balance with its own bomb, no U.S. observer could say; estimates ran from two to ten years. But for 1947, at least, the bomb, in the hands of free men, was perhaps the one great deterrent to the authoritarians who only understand force...
...should be as strong as you are." From then on, Albert's broth tasted flat. And as he grew up to find that he was favored among men in more than broth and overcoats, Schweitzer was haunted by the feeling that he must somehow redress the balance...
...Sent an ultimatum to Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia demanding redress and satisfaction over the capture and killing of U.S. airmen...