Word: expounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...typically ambitious Omnibus undertaking-but less ambitious in size than it started out to be. Two years ago, after listening to a British general expound over cocktails how Gettysburg "changed the course of civilization," Omnibus Executive Producer Robert Saudek decided to re-enact the battle on TV. At first it was to be treated as a classroom demonstration, with tin soldiers on a sand table. This gave way to a plan to film the battle at Lenox, Mass, on terrain resembling Gettysburg without the monuments. One hundred and fifty bearded and costumed actors and volunteer extras, all Civil War buffs...
Added up, her work came close to fulfilling the ideal of modern U.S. diplomacy: to promote and expound the policies of the U.S., and in doing so, to strengthen the forces for independence, freedom and stability in the nation to which an envoy is accredited. Both Washington and Rome credit her with major achievements...
...hand, aggressively campaign for their candidates, will raise a $3,000,000 war chest (up nearly 50% since 1952) for the Democratic Party this year. While politically-oriented union periodicals and fund-raisers circulate freely in most plants, employers as a group feel workers would resent any effort to expound management's view of political issues...
With Dr. William L. Howse of Nashville, an official of the Southern Baptist Convention, Allen has begun a three-week tour to expound his Sunday school building ideas to Japanese Baptists, also plans to conduct clinics and conferences in Hong Kong, Java, Korea and the Philippines under the sponsorship of the Baptist General Convention of Texas and the Southern Baptist Convention...
...present crisis of indifference, Gruenther understands that no alliance is stronger than the will to support it. "We can stand criticism, but we cannot stand indifference," he says. His method is to expound to anyone who will listen-to groups of manufacturers, parliamentarians, schoolgirl choirs-the necessity, importance, and stature of NATO...