Word: widespreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through him as he spoke to an international emergency conference on European grain supplies: "Hunger sits at the table thrice daily in hundreds of millions of homes. . . . The world uses the words 'starvation' and 'famine' very loosely; some travelers glibly report there is now widespread death-dealing famine on the Continent of Europe. In modern civilization whole nations do not lie down and die. The casual observers do not realize that famine would have already struck great groups and classes were it not for past overseas supplies and that it is in evitable, unless we land...
...real information. But last week, Glenn T. Seaborg, codiscoverer of plutonium, and leading chemist of the Manhattan Project, released a gob of it. Said Seaborg: "It is not at all out of the question that the greatest gains to humanity from the atomic energy development will result from the widespread use of tracers...
Both the track and lacrosse squads are still suffering from the widespread war-time malady--shortage of experienced competitors. Jaukko Mikkela's cindermen are harrassed, moreover, by the ravages of injury and probation, while Bob Maddux views this spring primarily as a "building year" for his lacrossemen...
...TIME sees no injustice in its report that the widespread recognition of Bela Bartok's work was belated. As for famed Violinist Szigeti, how about confetti...
...States may be considered as closed for the ages, unless now the United States shall foil the untoward result by adopting a sound policy. It is my opinion that the highest interests of the United States are involved in sustaining China . . . rather than see China become the theater of widespread anarchy, and ultimately the prey of European ambitions...