Word: expand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Balloon. Cairo's talk of mobilization was "pure imagination," said the Israelis. Yet they plainly took great interest in Jordan's unsettled condition. Arab leaders, to a man, suspect that Israel longs to expand to the Jordan River, thus absorbing most of the old Palestine, encompassing all of Jerusalem, and gaining a more defensible eastern frontier. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion confided to an English newspaperman that if there was to be any change in Jordan's status, Israel would like to see the west bank of the Jordan River demilitarized and guarded by U.N. troops...
...than 60. England is without a red hat, and the U.S., which once had five, now has only two. Africa, The Philippines and Mexico would each like a cardinal. So complex and widespread have the church's affairs become that many Vatican officials feel that the Pope should expand the college beyond the present limit of 70 (the Pope can raise the limit to any figure he sees fit). Whether he chooses to fill up the college in one or two big consistories, or does it piecemeal in a series of small ones, Vaticaners feel that the new Pope...
...increase in applications came as a surprise," commented Lockard. "If the demand continues," he declared, "we shall have to take on more instructors and expand facilities...
...most graceful and a charmingly untypical consistancy creates a kind mis en scene, a vignette of times past. The lack of proportion which marks the Hub, ill-grown and non-planned, is Roman in a way. No other traits unite the two cities, but both mushroom and expand with extraordinary nonchalance, and order survives where...
...factor in keeping prices level is the excess capacity built by U.S. industry during the boom. This now permits the economy to recover and expand without pressure on production resources, thus preventing demand from overrunning supply-and forcing up prices-in the fashion of classical inflation. It also means that industry tends to produce more efficiently, thus cutting costs and helping to keep prices steady...