Word: broader
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...design draws on Lockheed's extensive experience with supersonic military planes, and engineers have added two safety-boosting innovations. The hinged nose dips 15° during takeoffs and landings so that pilots can see better. So-called "double-delta" wings-thinly tapered in front and broader at the rear-prevent stalling at low speeds, give extra stability in the treacherous turbulence of travel at Mach...
...take the country over by force. It is a hard and frustrating job, and there is no easy answer-no instant solution-to any of the problems they face. Our wish is to see them increasingly able to manage their own affairs with the participation of an even broader share of the population. We regret any diversion from that task and from efforts to defeat the Communists' attempt to take over South Viet...
...spangled Western getups, nasal mewings and twangy guitars that have made country music so tiresome. He is more the Country Como, a slightly citified slicker in sports shirt and slacks, singing to arrangements laced with violins and a gently humming chorus. As such, he has attracted a broader popular following than any other singer in the old Nashville clan. Says he: "Once we cut out all the by-cracky nonsense and give respect to our music, then people will respect...
Next day, after a visit with wounded Viet Nam veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, he appeared before a high-spirited crowd of 6,000 Democrats at a $100-a-plate dinner in Washington and unloosed an oldfashioned, stump politician's spellbinder-and, this time, some far broader barbs at Fulbright. When Johnson rose to speak, he glanced a dozen seats down the head table where the Arkansas Senator sat. Said the President: "I am delighted to be here tonight with many of my very old friends-as well as some members of the Foreign Relations Committee." Chairman Fulbright, wearing...
...Devious" was House Republican Leader Gerald Ford's word for the Administration's request. "A gigantic crap game, with the taxpayer the only one who loses." Actually, in asking Congress last week for broader authority to sell Government-held loans to private investors, President Johnson was resorting to a revenue-stretching device that was pioneered by the Eisenhower Administration...