Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...either wealthy or titled, or both. There were colored men all through the Oxford and Cambridge colleges, and Negro presidents of the Oxford Union; they were accepted in Mayfair's swankest hotels and clubs. During the war, U.S. Negro soldiers were welcomed with unequaled kindness, even to the extent of fathering some 750 babies...
...praised the Chinese for being generous and brave, but then coupled that with a sentiment not heard in China since the Communists took over: "As a people, the Americans are very generous and brave. In the sphere of scientific knowledge the Americans have developed to such an extent that they can make this world a happy and prosperous place to live in." He would, he said, now like to visit...
...attitude of America to world affairs. Recent statements by President Eisenhower and Mr. Dulles have spotlighted several vital issues. Many Americans have urged an aggressive policy towards Communist China. When China recently imprisoned thirteen Americans there were renewed calls that America should "go it alone"-to the extent of blockading China. But President Eisenhower has squashed these suggestions. He has made it plain that he will not consider steps that might lead to war and divide America from her allies. All America's efforts are now to be exerted to achieve peaceful co-existence with Russia and the Communist...
...epileptic living in Delaware is prohibited from driving a car, is branded a criminal if he tries to marry, and can be sterilized on the decision of community or state officials, none of whom need be doctors. His plight, duplicated to some extent in nearly half the 48 states,-is caused partly by the fear that he will have a seizure endangering others (e.g., while driving), partly by the belief that epileptics are mental defectives and that their illness is hereditary. The truth is that, while it is rarely cured, the use of modern drugs, and sometimes brain surgery, makes...
...rung: 2143-6587, 24163857, 42618357, etc., through all the possible combinations. To complicate matters further, variations are obtained when the conductor calls for "bobs" or "singles" (two bells swap their places out of sequence or dodge backwards among other bells). Eight bells have been rung to their full "extent" (40,320 changes) only once: in 1751, by relays of 13 bell ringers working for 20 hours straight. But modern competition rules, set by the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers as carefully as cricket regulations, forbid the use of relays: only one man to a bell, and he must stick...