Word: widest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...give his arguments their widest hearing Baldwin must write for people receptive to this kind of advertisement. No writer expects to convince all of his readers. The New Yorker has as intelligent an audience as any popular magazine in this country, and many of its subscribers are as far removed from the world of "princes and tycoons" as they are from a world where people ask if they should be "integrated into a burning house." But the fact remains that Baldwin's arguments must confuse and threaten any white man who reads them. For his ideas challenge white society...
...suburbia. It has a certain amount of agriculture-if tough turkeys, and apples used mostly for bland cider, can be counted. It has roughly 360,000 registered Democrats, 360,000 registered Republicans and 600,000 independents-and the analysts adore independents. Connecticut is small but heavily populated: at its widest stretch, it is less than 100 miles across; within its modest boundaries live some 2,500,000 people. And this year the candidates for major public office are tumbling all over each other as they travel the state...
...Edward Richard George Heath, formally notified ministers of the six Common Market nations that his government had reached "a great decision, a turning point in our history." In a deep, resonant voice, Heath declared: "We desire to become full, wholehearted and active members of the European Community in its widest sense, and to go forward with you in the building of a new Europe." Gravely, he added: "Europe must unite or perish. We are convinced that our destiny is intimately linked with yours...
...spread our forces each week to anticipate the direction of the news, we have three separate ambitions: to deliver not just a rehash of the conspicuous happenings but to have something fresh to add to them; to spot in the unlikeliest places and widest variety of fields what is new, important and lively; and to provide a coherency and shape that will increase the reader's understanding of the random and complex events of the week. Three examples of what we try for in this week's issue...
...Reform or even abolition of the Index of Prohibited Books. The Index, says Küng, ensures "to any book placed upon it the widest possible circulation...