Word: wider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henceforth France will collaborate with Britain in all Near East matters. In return, Britain will presumably collaborate with France in the wider sphere of foreign policy, e.g., in a possible Franco-British alliance like the Franco-Russian alliance...
...divorce courts. The way he chastised those House committees [in his wage-rise speech] is perhaps the worst blunder of its kind since Wilson called those fellows a 'little group of willful men.' If Truman keeps that up he'll split the Democratic Party wider than it has ever been." The Senator, with traditional party optimism, thought that the G.O.P. could win the 1946 elections...
Morikawa had chummed with Occidentals in school days, but as they grew older "the creek between us grew wider." He was moved from his small fruit farm in British Columbia in 1942, corralled with other Japs in Winnipeg's old Immigration Hall. There they waited two weeks "like cattle at an auction" as farmers looked them over for work on sugar-beet farms. He farmed for 18 months, then got a job as a tinsmith. He sums up his life in Canada: "They tell us we don't assimilate. When we make friends with Occidentals...
...Then came the strongest pronouncement yet. No longer hinting, but flatly telling, Radio Moscow proclaimed that Chiang and Mao had reached agreement, added that "a complete central unified government will be created for the whole of China." Moscow gave no details, but asserted that the new government would have wider political representation, that "an early election will be held throughout China." China's armed forces, added Moscow, would be demobilized. The broadcast, attributing much credit to the recent Sino-Russian treaty (TIME, Aug. 27), ended with the categorical statement: ". . . Unity in China has been established...
...President Truman lost a strong fight for wider press coverage of the conference itself...