Word: richer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tiny task force bides time until all the security chaps for miles around are pooling sweat over the arrival of a Soviet Premier. Nothing goes off on schedule except the robbery itself, and that's a pittance, for it turns out that the hero might have got richer going straight...
...tens of thousands of hands. He has promised his audiences almost everything: a balanced budget, control of inflation, more imports, more exports, better transport and communications, more electric power, better education, health and housing. His aim, he proclaims, is to promote "an authentic democracy, in which the rich are richer and the poor are less poor...
Taking an entirely different tack from the Rockefeller men, Michigan State University researchers have at tacked both parts of the food problem at once. Borrowing the methods and materials of highway builders, they have learned to lay down underground strips of asphalt that literally pave the way for richer crops of all varieties...
...down his chest, the German fought on, stinging Cassius with solid lefts to the head. Try as he might, the champion could not put Mildenberger away; the referee stopped the fight in the twelfth and declared Cassius the winner by a technical knockout. Heaving a big sigh of relief, richer by $200,000, Champion Clay began preparing for yet another title defense, this time against Houston's Cleveland Williams-whom Sonny Liston once described as "the toughest man I ever fought...
...complaints have risen in the U.S. about unfairness in the system by which young men are selected for, or exempted from, military service. There is considerable grumbling about the fact that local draft boards, under the current system, tend to induct poor boys, Negroes and school dropouts, while sparing richer or brainier youngsters. Many Americans feel uneasy-and the draftee may feel downright angry-that the 971,000 active reservists and National Guardsmen are exempted from extended military service for the price of a brief training period and periodic home drills. Last week both the President and Congress took note...