Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skier is not alone in his anxiety; there are others of the athletically inclined who share his fear and trembling. At any moment the University may turn against their sport, withdraw its funds, demote its standing. And to an ever increasing extent, this is happening...
...aware that the living standards on the island will almost certainly fall if Britain pulls out; but this practical consideration is unimportant, they feel, when set alongside the "principles" at stake. Greeks are puzzled and hurt that Americans do not always see it the same way; and the extent to which they conceive of America as standing for principle is almost frightening. Their image of the U.S. is really a nineteenth-century one--we are still, above all, a country dedicated to "the ideals of '76," still the land of opportunity for the downtrodden of Europe. These words have...
...does its greatest damage, perhaps, in segregating athletes from the mainstream of college life. Meals in the House dining rooms, no matter how unfortunate in their culinary aspects, are clearly a very good way of making new friends. Athletes miss out on this to some extent; and athletes are a rather isolated group to begin with--given the need for long afternoon practices, trips to other colleges...
...Boone and Jerry Lewis. Sammy Davis Jr. will stay up all night to be sure to catch her show when he is in New York. Other adult male viewers find the going a bit sticky. Says one: "Much depends on the strength of one's stomach, extent of one's hangover, love of young mothers, and ability to endure small children at an early hour." But with young mothers, small children and her 13 sponsors, Shari Lewis is solid...
That the threat to the new nations is a real one should already be clear, though recent reports from Russia by Walter Lippmann and Adlai Stevenson delineate the immense extent of Communist appeal to the world's underdeveloped areas. To answer the Soviet challenge with half-way measures, such as the President has cited, or with threats on the order of Secretary Dulles' pronunciamento seems the height of folly...