Word: widespreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...level, should Washington have some practical voice in the aims and methods of the school systems which are so vital to the Nation's well-being? A quick yes-or-no answer to these questions is impossible. Their implications are too broad. What is clear, however, is that more widespread consideration of the possible merits and drawbacks of some Federal control of education is needed if an intelligent policy is to be developed...
Unable to reach their jobs, thousands milled in the streets. A lively business sprang up: for 15 piastres (60?) a guide would show a chink in the wall of soldiers and a way out of Tel Aviv. British troops made widespread searches for terrorists, collared many in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem who were merely terrorized. The Jews managed sly smiles at a British announcement that 25 "known members of the extremist Irgun Zvai Leumi and Stern Gang had been taken during "Operation Hippo" (the Army's designation for its application of martial law). Said Tel Avivians: "Hippo labored...
Even before he became the Jesuit Provincial (in 1945), sharp-featured Father D'Arcy had an unusually widespread influence. As Master of Oxford's Roman Catholic Campion Hall (for more than a decade), he turned its three-story building into a religious museum of valuable paintings, rare books, tokens. His urbane charm and cultivated mind have influenced a quarter-century's crop of Oxonians and helped bring many a British highbrow into his broadbrowed church...
...people, in fact, become indifferent? Signs pointed to a contrary conclusion. One sign was the active and widespread confidence in and support of Secretary George Marshall. Another was the Gallup poll which showed only 5% of the opinion that the U.S. went too far in opposing Russian aims...
...exchange balances are barely adequate to cover minimum needs for the next three months. China's textile industry, for example, faces collapse if it cannot get U.S. cotton on credit. If China's cities are not making pants to trade with China's farmers for rice, widespread starvation in the cities may result...