Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park, saw how Indian pueblo dwellers built blocklike homes that melded harmoniously with their mountainside surroundings. As a result, he switched to spectacular cylinders and gauntly chiseled towers. "These," he explains, "were the only forms strong enough to stand up against that scale...
...third and only tolerable solution, concludes Reischauer, "is to force the other side gradually to reduce the scale of fighting and eventually to accept some sort of reasonable settlement...
McNamara's news was greeted sympathetically by Washington critics of the war, who see the barrier as a possible first step to scale down the bombing of North Viet Nam. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield has urged such a barricade since April. But there was little enthusiasm from soldiers. They oppose any attempt to tie down troops in static positions while the enemy roams free. "Militarily, it's no great shakes," grumbled a Marine officer. An Army general was kinder. "I guess it can't hurt anything," he hazarded, "if it doesn't draw...
Milwaukee's Negroes constitute only one-tenth of the city's population and-partly for that reason-have yet to mount a major rebellion on the scale of Watts or Detroit. Yet, like other ghetto dwellers, they have their grievances. In the Inner Core, as Milwaukee's Negro slum is called, unemployment is more than twice as high as in the historically German and Polish districts that surround it. Housing is decrepit in the Core, educational levels as low as in Harlem or Cleveland's Hough...
...nine years of postwar carmaking, Von Heydekampf has concentrated on the other end of the scale...