Word: widens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...responsibility to counsel all 186 of his party colleagues in the House, many of whom are being hurt by the intraparty crossfire, and last week began to meet with them in groups of eight or ten. His message to all: take special care during the impeachment debate "not to widen the division among Republicans; analyze the evidence in such a way as not to hurt anybody else." He promises to campaign for all Republicans, regardless of how they vote. He told one group: "I can't put the umbrella over all of you, but I can help to wipe...
...shareholder issues lost their post-Mass Hall glamor for students, the student ACSR, which last year took stands on every important proxy resolution, went into a dormant state. At the beginning of the spring season, the student group grandly announced that it would widen its scope this year and focus on community affairs as well as shareholder issues--and proceeded to do not much of either...
...idea for something like the Chronicle in 1957, when he was editor of the Johns Hopkins alumni magazine. At that time, he helped fashion an insert dealing with various national issues in education. The supplement took off and soon reached a circulation of 2.4 million. In an effort to widen his focus, Gwaltney left the Hopkins magazine and got a grant from the Carnegie Foundation "to find out," as he puts it, "what information educators needed and weren't getting." In 1966 he began publishing the Chronicle. Last July the paper finally moved into the black with a circulation...
...Lennon related. When O'Brien, 18, returned from Ireland, he "said he was thinking about how he could get them out. He was only a young kid and a bit of a romantic." Inspector Wicken was taken with the idea, on the theory that this might widen the net: "He told me to play along with it." In January Lennon and O'Brien drove to Birmingham to reconnoiter the Winson Green prison, where one of the prisoners was held. "I told Pat to get out and take a photo...
...statement by Robert Louis Stevenson that "there are no adjacent peoples in the world so utterly and inalterably opposed to each other as the Scots and the English." To MacDiarmid the lesson to be drawn from Stevenson's insight is this: "All I want to do is widen the difference. Scotland must now play its part." Ever growing numbers of Scotsmen agree...