Word: tantamount
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...leading Soviet expert on international law said yesterday that the United States' move to impose a naval blockade on Cuba was tantamount...
...thoroughly embedded in the community, thanks to the direction of peppy, longtime (34 years) Editor Louis B. Seltzer, 65, who has won the title of "Mr. Cleveland." Seltzer pays close attention to Cleveland's minorities, has made his paper's endorsement so valuable that it is often tantamount to election. The Press helped boost Frank Lausche from municipal judge to Cleveland mayor to Ohio Governor to U.S. Senator-a triple assist that Lausche himself acknowledges-and also helped elect present Health. Education and Welfare Commissioner Anthony Celebrezze to the Cleveland mayor's chair. >-Scripps-Howard...
...democracy proved fraudulent. Sobbing, they admitted that they felt the same way about baseball. They knew that the game had changed very much but had always insisted that it was the Yankees who were responsible, the Yankees who were making a mockery of baseball. To believe otherwise would be tantamount to admitting that the faith of their youth was wrong...
...impoverishment by riches is only one of the strange strains that federal money puts on schools. Among professors, the academic pecking order has made the research grant, in the cutting words of Critic Jacques Barzun, "tantamount to a patent of nobility." Moreover, most federal research is still confined to a few great universities with a corner on great scholars...
...apartheid. It is possible that by the time you receive this, your correspondent, Lee Griggs, will be packing his bags at the invitation of the South African government and moving elsewhere; for to criticize, censure or write about South Africa's policies in an unfavorable way is tantamount to treason...