Word: extents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...severe fever and gastrointestinal illness. He tried to conduct diplomatic business from bed, but issued irrational and contradictory orders and thought the French servants waiting on him were spies. The episode may well have presaged the massive stroke six months later that left him physically and, to a large extent, politically disabled. For the rest of his presidency-and indeed his life-Wilson's wife literally guided his hand as he signed documents. Franklin Roosevelt, who had been in poor health for years, took a turn for the worse during his wartime meeting at Yalta with Stalin and Winston...
...extent of suffering would depend on several variables. Example: if the attack were to take place on a clear summer weekend afternoon with most people outdoors, the number exposed to direct thermal radiation would be 25 times greater than if it were a cold winter night with most people inside their homes...
Although not yet on "Anwar" and "Menachem" terms, Begin and Sadat appear finally to have melted the frost that until now has characterized their personal relations. In El Arish, they joked with each other to such an extent that at first they seemed oblivious to the presence of U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who in turn seemed happy to be left out. "I was delighted," he said later, "to see how their personal relations are so much better now that they can relax in each other's company." Sadat and his wife Jehan that day had marked their...
...Primate of Poland, mounted the steps into the plane. John Paul's shrewd former mentor has maneuvered for three decades to guide the Polish church through the darkest days of Stalinist repression into an era of uneasy coexistence with the country's Communist rulers. The extent of the church-state detente was immediately apparent: figurehead President Henryk Jablonski came to the airport to welcome John Paul, and the Pope later conferred for 30 minutes with Communist Party Secretary Edward Gierek...
...School administrators said they were unaware of the extent of Charles Engelhard's connections to South Africa when they accepted a $1 million contribution from the Engelhard Foundation early last year. A feature in an October Crimson detailed Engelhard's involvement in South Africa: as chairman of the board of Rand Mines, he had encouraged Americans to invest in that country and had made public statements condoning apartheid...