Word: widespreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Accurate information about remaining factory capacity was infinitely more difficult to assemble. Current production figures were no help. Disorganization, public apathy, strikes were so widespread that the Japanese had to resort to typically
...hell or in Valhalla. Nor did they care about the 20 or their punishment. In Berlin, where Allied loudspeakers relayed the trial news in public squares, most pedestrians did not even stop to listen. In a Berlin poll last week, Grete Schweinchen, a social worker, expressed a widespread German reaction: "It's carrying 'democracy' too far if you punish generals for waging...
...Vatican, which keeps a close eye on Austrian developments, was delighted with Figl's victory. Informally, Vatican circles last week called it "clear proof of Austria's intention to tread the middle path between leftist extremism and out-of-date conservatism in harmony with the great, widespread European movement, now apparent, toward progressive moderation...
...widespread fighting approximately 500 were injured. Next day police rounded up anti-Somozistas. Those who reached Panama were lucky; many of the rest were shipped off to Nicaragua's penal colony on Corn Island...
Twelve years ago the nation's race tracks cracked down on the widespread practice of "hopping" horses; into limbo went the old standbys, heroin and cocaine, which mandatory saliva and urine tests showed up crystal clear. Inventive horsemen-and few are short on imagination-promptly began a painstaking search for a magic hop that would leave no telltale evidence. Stories and jokes about new nasal sprays and rectally-administered stimulants soon became standard race track shop talk...