Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Doubtless many preoccupations encouraged Roth to turn to this type of plot. He probably wanted to expand his own horizons, to escape from the limitations of writing that sub-genus of novel, "Jewish fiction." Perhaps he felt that the kind of book he had been writing has been overworked in the United States as well as in his own career. But When She Was Good also seems motivated by a drive to make a more general point about America than Roth had previously done. Lucy is trying to uphold the morals which symbolize smalltown America and, indeed, "the American...
...will know in a couple of days just how big a success we have been," Lehrer said, "and then we may plan to expand...
...experiment was such a success that Shankar and Menuhin decided to expand on it in a London recording studio. The result is one of the year's most fascinating-and briskly selling-classical albums; released in the U.S. on an Angel label, it has sold 15,000 copies in six weeks. Menuhin plays two ragas worked out by Shankar (the rest of the album is given over to a solo by Shankar and a performance of Enesco's Sonata No. 3 by Menuhin and his pianist sister Hephzibah). On the first, a violin solo, Menuhin spins...
Frontier last week also pressed its Civil Aeronautics Board application to expand west to Las Vegas, Los Angeles and San Diego. If granted, the new routes would not only give Frontier more lucrative long hauls but also lift it into the ranks of the major trunk carriers. As far as Dymond is concerned, that is only a start. He may never win CAB approval, but in recent months he has peppered the board with proposals for everything from through service between Miami and San Francisco to a run south to Mexico City and Acapulco. Grandiose as all that seems...
...urge the National Center for Health Statistics to continue and expand studies of the completeness of death registration and studies of the quality of data obtained on death certificates...