Word: widens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...misread all this to mean that they can get by with anything. The one complaint heard in workers' canteens and in Tory bosses' offices alike is: "They don't give us a lead." It is the single crack in Labor's armor, and it could widen into one big enough to let out Clement Attlee and all his Cabinet...
...worth of suits now pending. Portal-to portal pay was something which had not occurred to either employer or employee. When the Mount Clemens Case opened a legal loophole for extracting wages above the amount agreed upon in good faith, labor, en masse, leaped to widen the gap and cash in on an unexpected windfall...
...Veteran. Charlie became a familiar figure at political rallies, usually edged his way to the speakers' platform. To widen his connections, he wrote himself membership cards in the Knights of Columbus, Ku Klux Klan, B'nai B'rith, the Communist Party and Gerald L. K. Smith's America First. He slipped into the studio of radio station KFWB during a memorial broadcast for F.D.R., and was on the air before anyone could stop...
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., November 5--The Steering Committee of the United Nations Assembly tonight approved a United States proposal to widen the permanent headquarters site question to include consideration of New York City end San Francisco...
From the Sudan south, the Central African bastion would widen out. From it, the British would be able to slam the gates of Suez on any aggressor. They could rake an enemy in the Persian oilfields with rockets launched in Kenya or Khartoum. No threat to a peaceful Soviet Union, the African girdle might be a potent barrier to Russian expansion across the Middle East toward India...