Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...These things," said Group Captain Ward, "are a matter of life & death for every one of us." The sense of urgency and peril convinced Tories and Socialists alike. In the tense debate that followed, not even the Bevanites, who oppose the scope of rearmament, questioned the urgent need to increase R.A.F. appropriations by 33%. The biggest air force estimates in Britain's peacetime history passed the House of Commons without a division...
...recent report, the House Un-American Activities Committee expressed considerable consternation over the scope of academic freedom. The Committee singled out Geology professor Kirtley F. Mather and M.I.T. Mathematics professor Dirk Jan Struik as examples of what can happen to American education when teachers go beyond bounds that the House Committee believes proper. According to the Committee, Mather is a man "who exerts influence over thousands of students at Harvard University" and who possibly may be leading his charges along the ill-fated path of the Rosenbergs and the Hisses...
...bishop, McConnell had more scope to develop his idea of a social gospel, and his definition of "social" was of the widest. It included defending liberal professors threatened with expulsion by their colleges, supporting trade unions, attacking "militarists" and "Fascists" where he thought he saw them...
...course, the concert was not perfect. Any undertaking of such scope is bound to have minor flaws. Some of the soloists in the "Serenade to Music" were barely audible; the attacks in the "Fantasia" were not always as precise as they should have been. Still, there were enough outstanding moments to make the Vaughan Williams Concert one that will be remembered for a long time...
...cleanup job that Harry Truman promised for his malodorous federal house loomed as one of Augean scope when Judge Thomas Murphy backed away from it last December. The President seemed to have in mind a formidable probe and prosecution, a Democratic version of the Republicans' famed Teapot Dome inquiry. Last week the job turned out to be far less heroic in proportions. It called for a special assistant to the Attorney General, with powers only to investigate, leaving prosecution up to Attorney General Howard McGrath. After reportedly being refused by two other eminent lawyers (the late Robert Patterson...