Word: twofold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Berger accused Israel of creating tension in the Middle East by trying to project a twofold image of herself to the world. Israel, he said, wants the world to think of her as it would any other nation. At the same time she is using the cause of zionism to win sympathy in the United States and other parts of the world by claiming to be the leader not only of the Jewish people in Israel but of the Jews everywhere in the world...
Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman once summed up U.S. agriculture as half miracle and half mess. The miracle is the wondrous surge of farm productivity over the past few decades. Since 1920, farm output per worker in the U.S. has not just doubled or tripled, but quadrupled. The mess is twofold. There is the problem of overproduction. Freeman's Agriculture Department spends about $7 billion a year, largely in hapless efforts to cope with farm surpluses. And there is the problem of rural poverty. The average farm-family income from farming, according to U.S. Government statistics, is less than...
...effect of the curve is twofold, be said. Average students are insured against being failed by unusually tough graders, and honors students are protected against the cheapening of their achievement by easy graders...
...living standards and secure the independence of the nations of Africa, Asia and Latin America. To make this design enduring, the U.S. insisted that Britain become a member of the Common Market, followed by the Scandinavian and other NATO countries. The defense of this grand design would be twofold: conventional arms and armies supplied by Europe, and the nuclear umbrella held aloft...
Gift for One-Fifth. Franco's decision to end Spain's long cultural and political isolation is based on his twofold conviction that 1) the populace as a whole now accepts his regime, and 2 ) Spain cannot survive economically if it is excluded from the European Common Market, whose members bitterly dislike his autocratic ways. The stubborn illegal strikes that crippled Spain's economy for two months last year also forced el Caudillo to recognize that the country's hard-pressed workers are desperately eager to enjoy living standards comparable to those of other Europeans...