Word: wider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exact information, enlightenment and joy we derive from reading your excellent magazine make us look forward to each new issue of TIME with eagerness and expectancy. Your articles on war and world politics are of utmost value to us in giving the readers of the Norwegian underground press a wider picture of the world as it is today and will be tomorrow. Many of your articles are wholly or partly translated and printed by our underground papers, and as an example of this we send you enclosed a late edition of our weekly Kronikken...
Flying over southeast Asia, Major Walter V. Radovich began to think about his 18-months-old son - and also about God. The Major was a crack fighter pilot. He had shot down four Jap planes, had flown through a defile not much wider than his plane's wings to blow up an enemy munition train, had won the Distinguished Flying Cross. But there was something on the Major's conscience which would give him no rest...
...fellow countrymen to the intrigues of the enemy and of traitors. They are spreading all sorts of malicious rumors, predicting that there would be civil war and disunity in China. . . . I am afraid that some foreign commentators, unfamiliar with the real background, have also lent themselves unwittingly to a wider circulation of such rumors...
...General de Gaulle was well aware that internal politics are directly connected with foreign policy. Ever since liberation the French have been bursting spontaneously into the Marseillaise on streets and public squares. De Gaulle proposed that France should sing its national anthem on a wider stage to a bigger audience. On a swing around France last week he raised the question of France's role in Europe's affairs. In Lyons he said: France must be great. "She must be able to tell her friends: 'I am one of you, I am among the victors...
...semi-pro National Guard had contributed 76 generals, and perhaps they were the cases to point the way to wider leadership by citizen soldiers in the postwar Army. In World War II the top jobs had apparently been parceled out in fairly direct proportion to training in the years of peace...