Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress for arms to Europe-had stressed Russian strength, Western weakness and the threat of war. "Neutralism" was spreading in Europe; it was largely an indication that Europe was trying to stand on its own feet and think for itself and that was a good sign; but to the extent that it represented a European desire to find a neutral corner away from two quarreling big powers, it had to be answered. "Peace through strength," and not "cold war," was the new slogan in Washington...
...What We Are Doing." Replied Scott Lucas: "The laws of a government are considered civilized to the extent that they protect the life of its citizens against the conduct and acts of others. The right of life is no less than the right to work and earn a livelihood . . . A nation which must call upon every man and woman, regardless of race or religion, to protect it in time of grave crisis should secure to each of its citizens the right equally with all men to earn a livelihood . . . What we are doing here is trying to solve rationally...
...maladjusted highbrow. Gary is no Sartre watching life as a spectator. A French career diplomat now stationed in Bern, Switzerland, he has behind him a solid record as a fighter pilot in the French Air Force, which he joined in 1938. His novel, written in 1947-48, shows the extent to which many in Europe had lost heart, and lost their grip on the beliefs that made Europe great, in the fifth decade of the 20th Century...
Gleason and Horning retorted that the Varsity Club would be successful only to the extent that it defeated the House program...
...background into obscurity, and nearly all of the remainder into a particularly sticky context. Montgomery Clift and Douglas each find girl friends in Berlin. Clift, who has sensitive sympathetic channels, is overcome by the signs of the stricken city and is drawn to his girl to the extent of wishing to take her into Holy Matrimony. She, however, is simply deluding him in order to get to a friend, who is presumably still a Nazi, in St. Louis. Douglas' girl trots through the picture asking insane questions about the U. S., and representing unconsciously, symbolically, the problem of the German...