Word: widespreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whipped up widespread strikes in France...
...While many in the U.S. feared inflationary effects of general tax reductions, there was widespread support...
...hundred thirty-ninth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, academic circles here yesterday expressed the opinion that the Lincoln papers recently opened for the first time in the Library of Congress are generally complete, despite widespread theories to the contrary...
...done it? He did not say. Police suspected a widespread plot. But next day, when Gandhi again appeared at his prayer meeting, he begged the police to be merciful with the youth: "We should not harbor hatred." One of his listeners, deeply moved, shouted that Gandhi should proclaim himself a reincarnation of God. The Mahatma smiled. But his worshiper persisted. Then Gandhi's weak voice rose almost to an angry shrill: "Sit down and be quiet...
...fertility of the soil, missionary activities (his California newspaper pals began to call him St. Mark), even had the foresight to see the islands as a "commanding sentry-box for an armed squadron." And his humorous lectures on the islands, when he got back home, gave him his first widespread reputation (he outdrew Actress Fanny Kemble 1,500 to 200 in Pittsburgh, packed London's largest hall six nights running...