Word: lengthening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...society can exist, of course, without placing some restrictions on its members, and it's also true, no doubt, that the list must lengthen as economies become more complex and citizens more interdependent. But, recognition of that necessity, coupled with the original liberal premise that the state exists to maximize the real freedom of its members, should make us the more loathe to accept any limitation that is not essential to preserving some good greater than liberty...
...million project is targeted to renovate stations, replace 40-year-old tracks, and lengthen platforms to accommodate six-car trains...
...National Aeronautics and Space Administration, there is a different attraction: NASA would like to use Easter Island as a possible emergency landing site for the space shuttle. Under a plan proposed to Chile, which owns the 45.5-sq.-mi. speck, NASA would spend an estimated $11 million to lengthen the 8,500-ft. local runway by about half a mile, strengthen its surface and install sophisticated electronic navigation systems. The U.S. has reached similar agreements with five other countries: Senegal, Spain, France, West Germany and Japan...
...raise "golf balls" in anybody's throat, but did. Nancy cast her eyes down. Meese, the new Attorney General, beamed at everybody. White House switchboard operators, advancemen and journalists, all acknowledging some admiration of the troika era, nibbled shrimps and watched the shadows along the White House lengthen and history move...
Jordan simply embellishes these tales. The boy described does meet the devil. Immediately the shrubbery at his feet begins to lengthen to encircle and entrap him. We may not know much about the personalities of the characters by the end of the movie, but we certainly know why the devil scares them. The woods are both lovely, and dark and deep. Finally Rosaleen meets a lupine lover who may be the devil himself. He woos her in two scenes as superficially demure yet sexually suggestive as the near-naughty tale itself: "What big teeth you have...the better...