Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also appeared that General Bradley had not fully anticipated the extent of the military job which U.S. troops, planes and ships might be called upon to perform in Asia, where Russia saw and was now exploiting the chance to move in force without committing any Russians, at the same time effectually sucking in U.S. military strength...
...extent that the potato bug represents a Czechoslovakian domestic problem," he wrote to the Czech Foreign Office, "it is not a matter of concern to the American Embassy, which nevertheless expresses its sympathy ... To the extent, however, that efforts have been made to connect the United States with the presence of the bug, the matter is of legitimate interest to the American Embassy, which declares that [the] allegations . . . are false and preposterous...
Plenty of Capacity. Any immediate and sizable arms increase might start pinching present civilian production, if only to the extent of voluntary allocation of such materials as steel. On the other hand, many a businessman thought that the current production rate would have tapered off towards year's end anyway, leaving enough slack to take up any moderate increase in arms orders. Despite some possible pinches here & there, the economy was far better able to take on new loads than it had ever been. Since World War IPs end, U.S. industry had spent a thumping $80 billion on expansion...
...bound to confess that to some extent we are an odd body . . . for instance, what about the Dean of Canterbury? The toast is 'at home and overseas'-I never know which the Dean of Canterbury is, at home or overseas. Dare I say that when he is at home I wish he was overseas, and still more profoundly when he is overseas I wish he was at home...
Even with its shortcomings, the picture succeeds to a remarkable extent in understanding its criminals, and creating a kind of perverse sympathy for them without condoning their crimes. To have accomplished that within a story which is also a taut and exciting thriller, lifts The Asphalt Jungle high above the run of melodramas that do not score half so well on targets much easier...