Word: widespreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Laurent has something of the stature of an elder statesman but he has never been a rough & ready politician. No other Liberal has St. Laurent's qualification: widespread support in both French and English Canada. But in the give & take of practical politics...
...proposing a widespread rotation of the not-too-pleasant duties of the public service. And I do not mean merely part-time 'dollar-a-year' service alone. I propose that out of the best and most productive years of your life, you should carve out a segment in which you put your private career aside to serve your community and your country, and thereby . . . your children, your neighbors, your fellow men, and the cause of freedom...
...Kinsey got off on the wrong foot, said Dr. Kubie, by making two wrong basic assumptions. "One is that the overt manifestations of sexual patterns are all that we need to know about human sexuality. The other ... is that where any behavior pattern is widespread ... it is superfluous to attempt to explain it ... The implication that because homosexuality is prevalent we must accept it as 'normal,' or as a happy and a healthy way of life, is wholly unwarranted...
...Part "An Attitude Towards Literature," Kerans deplored the "long-lamented gulf between the serious writer and the reading public.... A literature which deals with the full and complex range of human experience... can become a standard and accessible literature only if it fills a need at once conscious and widespread...
...members and 4,000 other employees faced a choice between signing an anti-Communist oath or getting fired. By a 6-1 vote, the trustees had approved a resolution by Board Member (and Brigadier General) Carlton S. Dargusch, 47, wartime deputy director of Selective Service. General Dargusch had heard "widespread" rumors of Communism on the campus and thought that now was the time for teachers to "come forward and be counted." The Cleveland Press denounced the project as "hysterical libeling of a whole faculty . . . [The oath] won't reach the liars. It will infuriate honest...