Word: extends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neither a writer of fan letters nor particularly interested in the sport of improving the breed of horses. However, I am compelled to extend my congratulations to TIME for its outstanding article [March 17] on Silky Sullivan...
...from a 16-week time limit in Florida to 30 weeks in Pennsylvania. It was in an effort to ease the plight of such workers that President Eisenhower invited the governors' committee to the White House, presented a plan under which the states could draw federal funds to extend unemployment compensation for 13 weeks. Although the new plan included a complex formula aimed at maintaining the delicate balance of federal-state relationships, some of the governors seemed fearful of an invasion of states' rights. And, much to Ike's surprise, nearly all of them seemed unenthusiastic about...
Unemployment Insurance. TheAdministration shaped up a plan to extend benefits for 13 weeks beyond present limits-26 weeks in most states-and House Democrats hoppered a bill to continue payments for an extra 16 weeks...
...dramatic visit to Damascus-only a two-hour drive from Beirut-has had an explosive effect among the half of Lebanon's population who are Moslems. A delegation headed by ex-Premier Abdullah el Yafi, leader of the opposition, rushed to Damascus to call on Nasser and extend its congratulations. An estimated 100,000 Lebanese, about 10% of the little country's adult population, have made the trip since...
Troubling the Audience. If Spartacus should prove the beginning of a revolution in Russian ballet, the Bolshoi Company clearly has the talent and technique to extend it. Most of the first-rate young dancers in last week's production (including Julia May Scott, daughter of an American Negro and a Russian mother) were unknown to the West. They were drawn from the corps de ballet on the theory that they would be less hidebound by classical technique than the older dancers (an exception: famed Soloist Maya Plisetskaya, dancing the courtesan Aegina). Lavishly supported by the government, the Bolshoi currently...