Word: extended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President was not about to charge ahead with vast new schemes, neither was he ready to retrench. He promised more federal aid to rural areas, where 43% of the nation's poor live, requested $1 billion for Community Action programs in urban areas, asked for $135 million to extend the preschool Operation Head Start through the first and second grades...
...President is shifting his public outlook from the punitive war against the North to the U.S.'s more diversified efforts in the South. His attempts to get Ho Chi Minh to a conference table during the first two months of the year failed--principally because Washington refused to extend the Tet bombing pause unless it saw evidence that the North had "reciprocally" reduced its aid to the Viet Cong. Nonetheless, this was an extremely frustrating period for Johnson since public feeling that the war might end had soared...
...blackout would extend from arrest to verdict (often years). Defense attorneys, prosecutors and police would be subject to contempt proceedings...
Cases where a volunteer fails to meet the minimum demands of his job are rare, especially in an area like teaching that has well-defined working hours. Much more common is the teacher who does a conscientious day-to-day job of teaching but does not extend himself in any other direction. I asked a Peace Corps evaluator how he went about judging the effectiveness of volunteers in out-of-the-class activities. "It's easy," he replied. "I just ask him, 'What are you doing in the community?' Most of the time the answer is 'Nothing...
...legislature is a measure that would authorize aid to public schools offering part-time classes to parochial students. New Jersey's legislature is considering a bill under which parochial pupils would be bussed at state expense directly to their school door. Michigan law already requires public schools to extend auxiliary services-including student physical examination and street-crossing guards -to private schools in their districts...