Word: extends
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After the war, as the nation responded to the new threat of Communism, Attorney General Tom Clark persuaded Harry Truman to extend wiretapping to cases "vitally affecting the domestic security." This practice continued without serious limitation until 1967, when a Supreme Court decision limited the use of wiretapping without court warrants. The following year, Congress attempted to define the limits by requiring warrants in all cases that did not involve the national security. However, Attorney General John Mitchell went right on tapping the phones of suspected domestic subversives on his own authority in the name of national security-a practice...
...Kraus plan discourages teaching. If a student gets less aid because he has a teaching fellow's salary, only the richer-independent students will be able to teach undergraduate sections. And with the rising cost of education, who can afford to extend his school years by teaching...
...strike's third day, many Union teaching fellows had ceased their protest and returned to work. The steering committee thus concluded that a vote to extend the strike would be a vote to extend the strike exhausted picket force circling one or two buildings in sub-freezing weather. Except for a few exceptions, the students themselves were not willing to continue the battle for the sake of symbolism...
...summit got under way, agreement was easily reached on such nonsensitive issues as the annual denunciation of white racist regimes, the right of all members to extend their claim over territorial waters to twelve miles, and a unified approach to trade talks with the expanded Common Market...
...Nobody will ever be sure what went wrong that day. Turcotte is inclined to blame himself. Giving the horse his final speed work four days before the race, Turcotte sent him a mile in 1.42%. A fair workout for most horses-but a heavy eater like Secretariat needs to extend himself between races to keep in top condition, and it might have been better if they had gone faster...