Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seat at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens for 20 years, and the Boston Bruins, who have finished last in the National Hockey League for five straight years, regularly outdraw the Boston Celtics, who have won seven straight National Basketball Association championships. So the N.H.L. decided last week to expand from six to twelve teams, granting new franchises to Los Angeles, St. Louis, San Francisco-Oakland, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh...
...COLD BLOOD, by Truman Capote. In an effort to expand the dimensions of journalism by exploring the subsurface of a vicious and senseless murder, Novelist Capote has permanently enriched and amplified the reporter's craft...
...provide an answer, and he wants the Braves around to play if the trial goes against them. "Pending further order of this court," he said, the Braves and the rest of the league should prepare themselves to do one of two things: either keep the Braves in Milwaukee, or expand the league so that another team can play there...
...pound was thus defended and strengthened, and the trade gap was drastically pruned. Economic growth, however, dropped from 5.4% to 2.3%, and this year's prospect is for 2% or less. Though Britain is producing at full capacity, its long-familiar but urgent challenge is to expand capacity and efficiency much faster in order to pay its way in the world...
...other fund drives and suggested that the University's friends may be in for a lot of mail before Harvard's capital needs are satisfied. Among the programs he specified were an $11.6 million drive for a new home for the School of Design; a $15 million effort to expand the Law School's space; and an already-announced drive for $6 million to help build the International Studies Building...