Word: extends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harry Cain concluded his speech with an eloquent statement: "Any government, to deserve to survive, must deserve the respect of its citizenry. A government is under no compulsion to be less than severe in punishing crimes against the state, but that government is under every compulsion to extend consideration and just treatment to every citizen. He or she must be treated as what they actually are-the fiber and substance from which a free nation derives its strength and purpose." Only when the requirements of security and justice are met will the numbers Ten-Four-Fifty move...
...winter, a summer of a sort comes to the great white continent of Antarctica, bringing 24-hour-a-day sunshine and a brief, spongy softening of the coastal pack ice. That cold and flowerless southern summer is the season when dedicated men arrive by ship or plane to extend man's scanty knowledge-and tenuous possession-of the earth's most inhospitable region...
...Siler, whose best heave is 48 feet, eight inches, expects to extend this distance to hold Thompson...
...Harold Crasilneck, the Southwestern team was using hypnosis on yet another patient: a 29-year-old victim of Buerger's disease, a circulatory ailment heavily aggravated by smoking. After hypnosis, the patient refused to touch cigarettes, retched when one was offered. Result: steady improvement. The team hopes to extend the technique to other chronic ailments, but, warns Crasilneck: "As we see it now, hypnosis has a very definite, specific role in medicine. We don't for a moment say it is a cure...
...full round of Yardling athletic activity this afternon finds the hockey and track teams attempting to extend unbeaten streaks, the basketball team seeking its second win in seven starts, and the fencing team looking for an opening win. All contests except the fencing meet take place away...