Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...firmer line": "I would have to say 'firmer line' with respect to what, where, when . . . [The Middle East problem] is like a stack of jackstraws. Every time you touch one, you are very apt to move the whole crowd, and equilibrium is, to a certain extent, destroyed. That is what we don't want." Asked if he would order "those Marines that were sent over to the Mediterranean" into war without the consent of Congress, Ike reddened with anger. "I get discouraged sometimes here ... I have announced time and time and time again [that...
...broad view, Democrats can take pride in the extent to which the ideas have now been generally accepted. Instead of an effort to reverse the direction of New Deal legislation in such fields as social security, minimum wages, and the like, the Republicans have agreed to modest extensions in several areas. Social security coverage and benefits have been expanded. The minimum wage rate has been increased. Support for public housing as well as mortgage insurance has continued...
...play out parts they never asked for. Things happen, they get involved, and voila! A cool customer. Author Aymé himself never gets involved. He looks on with malice, with wit, and with a nice sense of just how much his characters can do about things and to what extent they are helpless victims. All this and a style that is as supple as it is lucid makes him one of the best satirists now writing...
Mayor Edward J. Sullivan slipped into town last night with several large snowflakes and distressed the local world to some extent. The CRIMSON, however, will not. At all. Until April...
Betsy Nelson, as Dorothy, must separate her emotions from the foolishness of her clown-friends, and in not displaying much sympathy she does this only to a limited extent. The Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Lion, as played by John Bernard, Fred Morehouse, and John Fenn, have a lot more fun and are very successful. Marc Brugnoni's excellent Wizard has a winsomeness and honesty which is very appealing. He, Fenn, and Anne Adams, in the dubious role of the Good Witch, turn in the happiest performances in pleasant, sprightly show...