Word: widespreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nations Center, an underpublicized celebrity was speaking on international friendship. It was Lidiya Gromyko, the diplomat's wife, appearing on the 21st of a series of ABC broadcasts on United Nations First Ladies. The interviewer: Alma Kitchell, a lesser Mary Margaret McBride. The broadcast was conceived in the widespread, well-meaning conviction (shared by the more thoughtful teenagers, the more optimistic cocktail partygoers and UNESCO) that a thorough exchange of information is the shortest route to mutual understanding between the U.S. people and the Government of Russia. The exchange...
Consternation was widespread among the Faculty and students of the Medical School as a result of the announcement. Lucius J. Lucius, professor of Biology, termed converging "a rare physiological phenomenon among women that I have observed only in isolated cases among the Indians of the upper Amazon region...
Against Tyranny. The House's avowed aim was to bring an end to "widespread industrial strife." That had also been the avowed aim of Congress in 1935, when it passed the Wagner Act. But the 80th Congress now thought that the hard facts of industrial strife had demonstrated the fallacy in congressional thinking twelve years ago. From an annual average of 753 strikes involving 297,000 workers before the NRA, precursor of the Wagner Act, the strike chart had climbed to 4,985 strikes involving 4,650,000 workers in 1946. Annual average of man-days lost before...
According to Lampy's Newsweek, the most important development of the past week has been the advent of Spring--which has had widespread repercussions from Capitol Hill to the Kremlin. Typical comment upon this earth-shaking phenomenon was that recorded by Senator Clag R. Polecat, "who said he know the dangers of overeating in hot weather. I was young once,' he cracked, 'but I'm grey-haired and sharp-eyed...
...ideology, the President has opened the way for subversion of democratic rights to the dictates of public opinion and the fears of hyper-sensitive officials. Under the new plan, the Attorney-General has the power to decide which groups constitute a menace to the security of the nation. This widespread discrimination in the hands of an over-zealous or personally ambitious officer could easily result in the practical exclusion of free thought in government circles. A program advocating the investigation of every employee's soul as well as his affiliations transcends the obvious limits of national security by its susceptibility...