Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turkish business back on its feet by outright gifts and barter loans. The Soviet commercial attaché invited Avunduk and his friends to come to Russia to see for themselves what Russia could do. He also said that Russia was prepared to aid Turkey through private enterprise on a scale far bigger than aid hitherto given to India and Burma...
...prepared to reduce its armed forces to 2,500,000 men and scale down conventional arms and military expenditures proportionately if the Soviet Union will do likewise. (This would mean demobilization of about 400,000 U.S. servicemen and about 1,500,000 Soviet servicemen...
Stevenson's setback in Minnesota was undoubtedly influenced by regional factors; what is far more significant is the general decline of the spirit of the Stevenson forces on a national scale that began long before the Minnesota race...
Taking this knowledge into the laboratory, a team of Air Force scientists led by Dr. Murray Zelikoff proved that small additions of nitric oxide can quickly unlock the energy stored in atomized oxygen. To test their conclusions on the atmospheric scale, they loaded steel cylinders containing 20 Ibs. of nitric oxide into the Aerobee, which triggered Holloman's celestial show at the 60-mile level...
...What? Is life over already?" Via Veneto Glitter. Amid the eerie indirections of the countess' mind, Novelist Druon subtly contrasts the past glories of Rome with the Via Veneto glitter of the present day. The countess celebrates the life of blazing passion and pleasure on a neo-Renaissance scale, but Author Druon is too steady-eyed to blink what Cyril Connolly has called "the remorse which is the shadow of that sun." Oddly enough, it is the countess' way of dying rather than living that is memorable. Pacing half-crazed on the burning deck of her memories...