Word: widespreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question Do you believe in life after death?, doubt was more widespread. The U.S., with 68% sure of a hereafter and 19% undecided, ranked fifth...
...some doubt that the Wallace movement is a genuine third party movement of the same type as the Populist, Progressive, or early Republican parties. At this point Wallace does not have the support of organized labor, the supposed core of any contemporary rebellion. Nor is there the same widespread discontent that has accompanied other third parties. Not since the Republicans rose from obscurity to power on the issue of slavery has there been a strong third party movement except in times of economic stress. Traditionally third parties have been able to make a good showing only when the two major...
Having in mind the widespread circulation of your valued magazine, I would appreciate an opportunity to reassure thousands of your readers ... as to Maine's condition since our forest fire disaster [TIME, Nov. 3]. This is prompted by the many letters I have received from far places "expressing concern based on exaggerated reports...
Last week the archbishop explained some "widespread misunderstandings...
Observers wondered what employers would do about the 3,000,000 union men, including Phil Murray's Steelworkers and John Lewis' A.F.L. United Mine Workers, whose officers have not signed affidavits. New York's Daily News editorialized: "The repercussions may be widespread, even violent." A Steelworkers' spokesman in Washington put it this way: "Any company which tries to use the board as an excuse not to bargain will probably be pulling a strike on itself...