Word: extends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Extend social security coverage to all employed persons, some 12 million of whom are not now covered...
...serious doubts" about the P.W. explanations, said Nehru, because there had been "shouting and jeers" at the Communist explainers. He thought it "reasonable" to extend the period of explanations (as the Communists have demanded), and thought the P.W.s should not go free on Jan. 22, though that is what the armistice provides. Nehru then gave M.P.s the first sensation of the day: he snubbed his patient commander in Korea, Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya, who believes the P.W.s should go free on the 22nd. Nehru faintly praised Thimayya's "considerable ability," but snapped that India, and not Thimayya...
...concession in permitting her subjects for the first time to greet both her and the British royalty with a handshake in the British fashion, instead of the low bow favored in Tonga. From all over her kingdom, the Friendly Islanders came by two-wheeled horsecart and outrigger canoe to extend the greeting...
Another pressing reason for raising social-security contributions is that the Administration wants to expand benefits and extend old-age and survivors' insurance to 10.5 million Americans not now covered. The inclusion of 6,500,000 would be mandatory under the Administration plan, including 3,000,000 self-employed farmers, about the same number of farm and domestic workers, and 500,000 professional workers, such as doctors, dentists and lawyers. Clergymen and state and local government employees could join if they chose. The Administration is also considering: 1) an increase in benefits, perhaps by $5 or $10 a month...
...thin, nasal voice, Field Marshal the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein curtly sketches the problem. Suppose the Russians were to advance here. (A dark shadow darts westward across the map.) Then their tactical air force's striking power would extend to here. (A purple light slides across the map, out into the Atlantic, ominously embracing Britain...