Word: widens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dapper, scholarly Harold MacMillan, sent out from Tory headquarters to play the provincial circuit, adopted a cautious politician's line. He told disgruntled Tories that their best hope for a return to power was not to commit themselves to a program but to widen the party's field "and bring in all who want free progress." "Like the parson who was against sin." he said, "I am against Socialism. . . . The great conflict to come will be fundamentally a conflict between God and the anti-Christ." His audiences applauded the generalities, but were not satisfied...
...average man doesn't read a novel in order to see how many faults he can find in it, or how superior he can feel to the writer. He reads to be entertained and, incidentally, to widen his vision of the world in which he lives. If a writer takes him into the presence of Roosevelt, Hitler, and Stalin, it would never occur to him to require legal proof that such an experience ever did happen to any one man in the course of one year...
...then are the people's welfare and the rights of the workers to be reconciled? Legislation pushed through in fury will not meet the immediate needs of the nation and can only serve to widen the already dangerous breach between labor and management. Rather the government's primary job is to guarantee the bare minimum of industrial operation urgently necessary to national and international welfare. To this end it should present the strike-bound industry with a plan for partial operation during the strike, and exert its full pressure to force acceptance. It is likely that even without governmental pressure...
...intense isolationism of the 1939 speech was replaced by a sensational confession: "Acquaintance with the life and customs of other nations will be of benefit to our people and will widen their outlook." Conscious that returning Red Army soldiers had brought home much dissatisfaction with them, Molotov earnestly said that Soviet living standards must be improved (see below...
Already grossing $250 a week after three months in business, Gene Gilbert last week began to widen his paying exploration of teenagers' buying habits. He appointed representatives in Indianapolis and New York, said he would open offices in 28 other cities, and incorporate...