Word: extended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read like a compendium of communiques from Teheran and Cairo, had turned to an exploration of future British policy. What startled the incredulous Nancy was the way Tories, Independents, Laborites agreed that Britain must: 1) revive its faith in the Commonwealth, take steps to strengthen and streamline it; 2) extend the Commonwealth to the little democracies of Western Europe, lend every aid to rebuild France so that she "can have an honored place in the group...
...weeks before the Gilberts invasion CINCPAC Chester W. Nimitz issued a directive ordering fleet, force and unit commanders to extend fullest cooperation to correspondents everywhere. His brusque public-relations officer, Commander Waldo Drake (onetime Los Angeles Timesman), picked the correspondents to be taken along, decided which should go in planes, on carriers, in landing parties...
Gnarled hands reached over the side, began to pull up the first of the "gang" nets, each "gang" made up of 24 gill nets 4 ft. wide and 300 ft. long, which may extend for a mile and a half. Motors of the automatic net lifters began to cough. With thousands of lake herring trapped by their gills in the 2½-in. meshes, the nets poured into the boats for two hours a glistening stream of thousands of pounds of fish. Nets cleared, lunch eaten and new nets set, the fishing fleet turned homeward, from Duluth to Munising, Mich...
...ASTP Glee Club, after entertaining itself and its own little circle exclusively for about six months now, decided to extend its services to the world at large, or at least that portion of it which tunes in the Crimson Network...
...thankful when he thereafter remained indoors. They announced the dismissal of "several hundred" Fascist officials in Naples, otherwise forwarded the scrubbing of Italy's Fascist face. But the consensus in Naples at week's end was that the cleanup, at least for the duration, would probably not extend to Vittorio Emanuele...