Word: widens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spring long, signs of economic troubles had been piling up. Britain's trade gap had continued to widen-by $67 million in June alone. Gold and hard-currency reserves had fallen by $372 million in four months. Inadvertently, Wilson himself had speeded the crisis. Before leaving for his trip to Moscow fortnight ago, he explained to the House of Commons that the new 7% bank rate had been urgently necessary to defend the pound, then went on to add that other emergency measures would come in ten days' time. The warning unnerved investors and sent the pound plunging...
...assuming the position, Selker said, he will continue the general policies he has had as coordinator of studies. He will maintain his of forts to strengthen and widen the undergraduate program at the Center...
...Christopher, 58, a Greek-born, self-made dairy tycoon, is as nubbly as Reagan is smooth. He points proudly to his distinguished mayoral record, seeks to widen his liberal-Republican base by supporting such conservative causes as fiscal integrity and increased support for local police. Most important, he asserts, he is the only Republican with sufficiently broad support to win in November; recent polls, his aides note, show him beating Brown by a margin of 15%, whereas a Reagan-Brown battle would be a dead heat. The same polls, however, show Christopher trailing Reagan in the primary race, and most...
Skirts rise, movie screens widen, and astronauts walk in space, but in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden it is 1898-and will be until the circus leaves town. Last week the Greatest Show on Earth came north with the birds, bringing its customary amalgam of animal and human acts from Europe and America. Some concessions are made to the 20th century: there is an elephant production number entitled "This Is New -Pussycat," and 50 sumptuously undercostumed ballerinas go through the Radio City Music Hall bit (step, two, three, whirl, kick) to the tune of What's New, Pussycat...
Before a student's ordination, the exchange program at other theological schools would also widen his experience, Coburn said. At present, four seminaries in the Boston area -- Harvard, Andover Newton, Boston University, and the Episcopal Theological School -- allow cross-registration for courses, he added, but only a small minority of their students take advantage of the system...