Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lewis gallery may not have the scope or the full-bodied exuberance of Dickens, but I believe it will linger in our memory a while...
...people to risk reforms, too afraid of the national administration to give it the power it needs. The Majlis cannot even bring itself to vote an annual budget; it passes each month a bill appropriating a twelfth of the budget. Obviously, even efficient civil servants have no scope to plan and operate on that basis. A government commission recently issued a report dividing prominent officials into three classes: 1) honest and efficient, 2) honest but unnecessary, and 3) corrupt or unworthy...
Roberts felt that the trend toward increased taxation of one sovereign by another was inevitable in view of the broadening scope of federal government activity...
...Hope. This time Jackson was aiming at no known Dday, but the scope of his operations was broader, the stakes higher. By spring, RFE's voice would be amplified by a second transmitter in Munich, its production department shifted to Europe to capitalize swiftly on fast-moving intelligence. Beyond that, the committee already was godfather to a group of National Councils, one for each conquered nation, composed of exiled intellectuals, artists and political leaders. These kept'a close watch on their respective homelands, stood ready, in a pinch, to act as governments-in-exile...
Even as General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower flew off to Paris to organize the North Atlantic Treaty forces (see INTERNATIONAL), the nation echoed with doubts about the whole European enterprise. The idea of U.S. military involvement on the Continent had been attacked by Herbert Hoover. The scope of that involvement was scrutinized even more rigorously last week by Ohio's Taft. The debate ranged over questions of effectiveness, practicality and logic...