Word: extends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Offer from Moscow, Russia, he said, would be glad to extend a generous loan for Libya's development, with no strings attached, would send specialized engineers to build whatever Libyans wanted-hospitals, schools, harbors, dams. Prime Minister Ben Halim hustled over to U.S. Ambassador John Tappin and told him frankly that, though he personally saw his country's future linked with the West, it would be very hard for Libya to refuse such aid, unless the West could offer to match it. While Ben Halim stalled off his answer, Tappin rushed off to Washington to plead for more...
Siren Song. In Dearborn, Mich., Public Safety Commissioner Marguerite C. Johnson announced that the feminine touch will soon extend to the city's police cars: "They'll be in assorted colors, and they'll be beauties-pretty reds, pinks, blues, greens and other shades; even the word police will be in complementary tones. Black is so drab...
...addition, the report asked that an undergraduate concentration in design be established to include and extend the present concentration in architectural sciences...
...support of some larger cause are not at all unknown in American history. The Underground Railroad before the Civil War was clearly designed to side-track the Fugitive Slave Law and speed escaping slaves to Canada. Suffragettes, too, were willing to break ordinance after ordinance to extend the vote...
Gandhi's jail-going was primarily pointed at limited objectives, such as the repeal of the anti-Asiatic registration. In South Africa, when some of his followers pleaded with him to extend the struggle into new areas, he stood his ground: "In a pure fight the fighters would never go beyond the objective fixed when the fight began," he said, "even if they received an accession to their strength in course of fighting, or on the other hand they could not give up their objective if they found their strength dwindling away...