Word: widespreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Widespread starvation might or might not come in 1947; if it did, neither UNRRA nor any international agency would be on hand to cope with it. That became virtually certain last week when the U.S. State Department turned down a proposal by UNRRA's Fiorello LaGuardia for a $400 million international relief fund to tide the world over the months between UNRRA's end, next Dec. 31, and the resumption of normal trade...
...Momism," of both the clinging and domineering varieties, is a widespread, "hereditary" U.S. disease, says Dr. Strecker, for which the nation is paying in general immaturity. "Instead of censuring mom for her shortcomings, we encourage her with misplaced adoration...
Labor had to think only once. Its probation had already started. Its smart leaders well knew that any widespread renewal of strikes or outburst of "abuses" would pass ammunition to its enemies in Congress. No union leader would say it, but labor's strategy over the next few months was to tread softly until it was clear how the other fellow might use his big stick...
...State Department view that control of food (along with other commodities) should be vested in the broader-based, less restrictive International Trade Organization now being established. The fact that Britain's delegate, Harold Wilson, also rejected the Orr plan (though for different reasons) did not remove a widespread impression in London of U.S. irresponsibility...
...least a part of the blame for Harvard's tardiness must be assigned to the belief, widespread in the '30's, that the new experiment in the land of the Czars would not work, or, alternatively, if it did work, that the people and government would be so vitiated that they could never again become a first class power. The utter fallacy of this belief seeped slowly into the world of academic planning, and it was not until December of 1944--six months before the Soviet Army marched into Berlin--that the idea of an area study that would include...