Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been accused of straining that alliance by his quarrel with Greece over Cyprus. But to a considerable extent, Menderes is a prisoner of popular feeling that Greek rule in Cyprus would be intolerable for the island's Turkish minority -a feeling whose full strength first became apparent with the 1955 Istanbul riots in which hundreds of Greeks were injured and at least $25 million worth of damage done to Greek property. Many Greeks are convinced that Menderes actually encouraged and organized the riots. "The alliance continues but the friendship died," says one Greek official...
...Hagerty by every standard the best-and most powerful-White House press secretary in U.S. history. Day in, day out, year in, year out, between presidential speeches and press conferences, during Eisenhower vacations and Eisenhower illnesses, Hagerty is the authentic voice of the White House and, to an extent rarely recognized, of the whole Administration...
...large extent the Monitor's excellence derives from Editor Erwin Dain Canham, 53, veteran newspaperman who has little but scorn for the artificial "objectivity" that cloaks the superficiality of much news writing. Says "Spike" Canham: "We believe that the balancing fact should be attached directly to the misleading assertion. News interpretation, with all its hazards, is often safer and wiser than printing the bare news alone. Nothing can be more misleading than the unrelated fact, just because it is a fact and hence impressive." Example: during the rise of the late Joe McCarthy, the Monitor...
...liberal arts college, it is particularly distressing to find a field such as music shutting out, to a greater and greater extent, the general student in the interests of the concentrators. If a choice must be made, a broad education for all students should be of more concern than the more vocational problems of the concentrators. Ideally, the department should be able to supply these general courses without doing it at the expense of the concentrators. Presumably, many of them would welcome the addition of courses in the history and literature area, in which they only have three...
Rigid censorship in Venezuela held up direct word of the extent of the strike and accompanying violence...