Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Braden had objected. Such action, he said, would start an arms race and would put small, democratic Latin American nations at the mercy of bigger, nondemocratic ones...
...there was one churchman the Southern Baptists didn't want to see at their convention in St. Louis last week, it was the Rev. John Franklyn Norris. But there he was, as usual, bigger and louder than life...
...years later, a jury acquitted him of burning down his church. Meanwhile, Fundamentalist Norris' tobacco-denouncing, hallelujah-shouting following grew bigger & bigger: by 1935 he was shepherding one congregation in Detroit, another in Fort Worth, commuting between them by plane...
Cabinet ministers visiting Yen's headquarters in the dusty village of Tinghsien found that the people had learned not only to read, but to keep their village clean, grow bigger & better crops. Yen's rule: "While we aim to create a new society, we must not forget we are doing it with an old society...
...enough to compete in the U.S. By inflicting what Hollywood technically calls the "stinkers" on Britons only, he has shrewdly created the impression in the U.S. that most British movies are up to or better than Hollywood's best, which they are not. But in competing for a bigger share of the world market Rank will have to turn out more & more movies. Mass-production may force him to use ready-made patterns. It is still a question whether he can keep the Bond Street cut that so many of his films now have...