Word: levels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consisted of kneeling and knocking one's head nine times on the ground before the Manchu Emperor. Thus the envoys of all the world acknowledged the supremacy of the Chinese sovereign. "Repugnant . . . degrading . . . inexpedient," the Britons had decided, "required for the obvious purpose of reducing us to a level with missions from Corea and the Lew-chew islands [i.e., Korea and the Ryukyus, including Okinawa] . . . should be refused...
...first thing Ted does when he reaches the bench is to pick up one of his bats. Awaiting his turn in the batting-practice cage, he looks as enthusiastic as he was at 14, and more so than he ever seems in the outfield. His level eyes take in each pitch and every swing...
...Seitz has little hope of reconciliation. The best that can be hoped for is a walled-off truce, but even this will be impossible, he points out, unless "the military strength of the Western nations [is maintained] at a level so great that Russia will not be willing to attack us ... I do not believe we can afford to refrain from accelerating our arms program beyond the present year. Even a delay of this length of time may be unwise...
Despite the enormous surpluses on hand and the prospect of more acoming, corn and wheat futures edged up last week to new seasonal highs in the Chicago markets. And at Kansas City, No. 2 hard wheat stood at $2.32 a bushel, 12? above the support level. In short, the Commodity Credit Corp. has taken so much wheat off the markets by loans and purchases that it has, in effect, created an artificial shortage-and higher prices...
...church tract that ploddingly touches on nearly everything from birth control to Author Robinson's view of the church's view on separation of church and state. But the author has included so many banal fictional tricks that both tract and story quickly reach a sustained level of stupendous boredom...