Word: widespreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hailed as liberators who were bringing with us the blessings of democracy. On the whole we are now taken to be moral slobs, mental deficients, and fools; and if Europeans now seek to milk us, we have only "Our Boys" to blame. It will take years to repair the widespread distrust of the U.S. produced, not by bombs or diplomatic deals, but by our half-educated, doltish youth...
...TIME'S thanks to Reader Cleveland for 1) correction of what is apparently a widespread error; 2) new proof that sauce for the Nazi goose is sometimes sauce for Allied propaganda...
...most comprehensive of the four, noted that "the 1931 Committee was able to take as an unwritten premise . . . that the tutorial system was a permanent institution at Harvard. . . . Today no one could safely make a tacit assumption that tutorial is here to stay. There is a widespread feeling, among students and among faculty members, that it is disintegrating...
...permitted that voice to speak only in favor of the present regime-i.e., "so long as [ideas] do not illegally attack the fundamental principles of the state." On the very day Franco issued his decree, Madrid was swamped by royalist leaflets. Promptly, the city buzzed with rumors of widespread arrests. Freedom under Franco was still a castle in Spain...
Doctors well remember that hunger and homelessness bred worldwide infections after World War I. They are puzzled that, though present wretchedness is far more widespread, the world continues free of serious epidemics. The fact is fortunate. The old League of Nations' Health Organization, now reduced to a staff of eleven, is still in Geneva putting out its Bulletin. But with so few men, it is no longer able to carry out its most valuable function: trouble-shooting in any nation where a plague strikes...