Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...calls the "literalists": those who, like Madison and Taft, interpreted their powers narrowly and subscribed to the Whig theory of the President as an errand boy for Congress. At the other end are what Yale Historian John Morton Blum calls the "latitudinarians": those who, like Lincoln and Wilson, gave wide scope to the Constitution's vague charter...
...ousted by a rejuvenated Republican Party." Notes TIME'S Washington Bureau Chief John L. Steele: "Historical generalizations are dangerous, but one is tempted to suggest that not even Lincoln who had to fight a civil war to preserve the Union faced such internal questioning, such intense and wide-ranging dissent as did Lyndon Johnson...
...only his second big-league season is already regarded as one of pro hockey's most talented defensemen and a budding superstar. "Bobby," says Coach Sinden, "does it all. He's the only player I've ever seen who can operate at top speed-wide-open, breakneck speed-and still execute all the fundamentals of the game." When Orr first arrived in Boston, he respectfully addressed other players as "mister" and "sir." This year he has shown little respect for his elders-stealing the puck away from Detroit's Gordie Howe, say, or slamming Chicago...
...CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS. At Columbia University's Neurological Institute in the last year before the pill came into wide use, only two women between the ages of 20 and 40 were admitted with strokes; one was pregnant, the other case was apparently unrelated to hormone changes. Last year, Dr. Richard T. Bergeron and Dr. Ernest H. Wood report, they had nine such cases in this age range, and all but one of these patients were on the pills. Some had been taking them for years, some for only a few weeks. Dr. Monroe Cole of Wake Forest College has reported...
...spending for factories and durable goods. It wasn't. Spotty profits kept businessmen cautious about expansion. Their borrowing served partly to pay off old loans and replenish coffers depleted by the 1966 money squeeze and the spring speedup in corporate tax collections; most of all, it reflected wide expectation that the Reserve Board might tighten up on credit or that the Government would pre-empt borrowable funds. Auto sales dropped to about 8,400,000, 7% below their 1966 level. "Mystified businessmen are still waiting for the frantic days that they were told lay ahead," complains Research Director Albert...