Word: broadens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Robert W. Sarnoff, 50, who has chosen to move the firm into other fields. The younger Sarnoff, who has already engineered RCA's long-reach acquisitions of Hertz Corp. and the publishing firm of Random House, believes that "it is desirable to broaden our base" even more...
...vain that later critics pointed out Turner's contradictions, observing that the frontier had also made Americans ruthless and violent and that many of the facts on which Turner based his theory did not check out. (For example, frontier settlers, who Turner insisted always wanted to broaden the vote, in fact often lagged behind their urban neighbors.) Turner's creative concept had caught the imagination, not merely of historians and students who revered him but of the people as well. It still does-witness Barry Goldwater's appeal in 1964 to the nostalgic hope of returning...
...some point in the filming of Lylah Clare it was apparently decided to turn it into a spoof of those Holly-wooden melodramas about moviemaking, like The Carpetbaggers or Harlow. Perhaps the film was always meant to be funny. On the other hand, perhaps its producers wanted to broaden the humor because the script was enriched with such heady verbiage as "I'll rummage through your soul like a pickpocket through a stolen purse." Or because one way of dealing with Kim Novak's acting is to pretend that it was meant to be that...
...accident that killed a host of Ky supporters finally pushed the Vice President into the background (TIME, June 21), and the President has quickly consolidated his position by a succession of shrewd maneuvers that have removed remaining Ky backers from influential posts. These days Thieu is working hard to broaden the base of support for the presidency. He takes trips into the countryside, where he is virtually unknown. He consults more often with political leaders and the National Assembly. He prods the military and civilian establishments to prepare for the day when the South Vietnamese will have to take...
...matter of medicine, but also one for other disciplines, especially religion and law. Everett I. Mendelsohn, associate professor of the History of Science at Harvard, joined up after Beecher saw him at a conference on the social implications of biology and chemistry, because he felt his historical background would broaden the group. Ralph Potter was pulled in from Divinity School because Ebert wanted a theologian on hand. The first man he asked recommended Potter...