Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard to categorize. As one observer notes: "He's not antiDemocratic, or anti-this or that wing of the Republican Party. He's bigger than that, and he's friendlier than that." From his first day on the Hill, he has concentrated instead on a wide range of national issues...
...than as vice president, and finally, in 1935, as the paper's fourth publisher. Under his stewardship, the Times brightened its pages with more pictures and a crisper, more readable writing style, expanded its coverage with greater emphasis on personality studies and news analysis. He allowed his editors wide latitude in day-to-day operations, engaged in debate rather than ex-cathedra dicta to implement his ideas, delighted in writing long letters to the editor under the pen name A. Aitchess. By 1961, the Times's daily circulation had risen 48%, to 680,265, and its Sunday circulation...
...difference shows, not a decline in moral concern, but the greater complexity of the ROTC issue and the greater effectiveness of University procedures. What worried me most last year was the prospect of me most last year was the prospect of disciplinary retribution meted out in ignorance of a wide moral upsurge. What worries me most today is the state of mind of a group of students who, because some forms of tolerance are at times "re-pressive," make a fetish of intolerance, turn a debatable view of history into a dogma, and convince themselves that their identification with...
Wading as through the cloudy dregs Of a wide, sparkling...
...Styron's novel has been given a Pulitzer Prize. Considering the wide critical success the book enjoyed, this result was foreseeable. Most of the novel's acclaim is explained to be due to these virtues: the human validity of its hero, the historical veracity of its factual information, and the merit of its social impact...