Word: extends
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supposed to pause and pray while you are at work. American Trappist notions of contemplation do not extend to that: on the contrary you are expected to make some act of pure intention and fling yourself into the business and work up a sweat and get a great deal finished by the time it is all over. To turn it into contemplation you can occasionally mutter between your teeth: 'All for Jesus! All for Jesus!' But the idea is to keep on working...
...broadcasting a U.P. bulletin about a murder confession, five radio stations last month were cited for contempt. The Maryland Press Association is fighting a proposal by the Maryland Court of Appeals to extend Rule 904 throughout the state. Protested the Washington Post: "The effect is to cloak the conduct of the police in secrecy and deprive the whole public of information...
...into position for the picture, she patted its head, stroked its back, quietly coaxed it to extend its hood. As the cobra's head began to bob rhythmically back & forth, Mrs. Wiley felt suddenly that it was not responding well. "It's getting nervous," she said. "I'd better put it away." As she reached for it, the cobra struck...
...delegates voted to extend the fight, set up a permanent World Congress on Poliomyelitis as a scientific clearing house. For mothers there were some reassuring statistics: mortality from polio averages only 1%; the number of children permanently crippled has seldom been more than 1½%, even during the worst epidemics...
Secret Weapon. At the last minute, Bernadotte and the Security Council tried to extend the truce before the still rickety war machines of Jews and Arabs could pick up momentum. Israel said it was willing to accept the extension. But the Arab League refused, claiming that the truce was "unworkable and one-sided." In Rhodes, where hard-working Bernadotte had found a little time for play (see cut), he warned both sides. After they had rejected his suggestions for a settlement, he said, "the losing party . . . can no longer hope to get so much . . . They take terrible risks in starting...