Word: tantamount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moreover, the state must also labor under an astonishingly low constitutional debt limit of $250,000-tantamount to no borrowing power in its own name...
...prelude to a Communist-inspired campaign to prohibit nuclear weapons altogether because "the Soviet Union has systematically sought to paralyze the West's will" to use those weapons. "In the present state of Western defenses, such a prohibition is tantamount to unilateral disarmament...
...regard the present work stoppage as a strike, since they claim most of the independent contractors have in effect agreed to the new rates since early March. The Secretary of the Union charged that the "refusal of the Fuller Company to comply with the new wage rates is tantamount to a lockout...
...weeks ago the French national student association passed a resolution on the Algerian situation which an American observer termed "tantamount to calling...
Black issues an edict: the illegal O, whether upper or lower case, must vanish from the language. Doctor becomes dctr, books are bks, clockshop, clckshp; saying cockadoodledoo aloud would be tantamount to fomenting rebellion. The docile natives of Ooroo, now renamed "R," try hard to talk the new gibberish. A by tells a girl she sings like a chir of riles, and gets slapped. Lads studying Igic at schl recite: "Mist is always mist, but what is mist isn't always mist.'' Peple can n Inger tell rot from root. Babies make as much sense as their...