Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Michel Debre, the man most responsible for the new constitution, stood firm against this challenge. Freely admitting that as a Senator during the Fourth Republic, he had himself been "a master of the art" of Tunisification, he added: "Yet I was wrong." He boldly pitched his argument to the widespread French anxiety, rarely expressed publicly, about what happens after President de Gaulle leaves the scene. "To guarantee the future of democracy in France," at a time when Parliament itself is discredited in the public mind, Parliament must not assert its "harassing" power against the government. Added Debre: "My words...
...which should disturb the conscience of the community . . . When Protestants-and other non-Catholics-are ready to view the school problem with sympathy for the economic predicament of a Catholic family of slender means, Protestant concern for religious freedom will be more convincing. On the other hand, there is widespread fear on the part of non-Catholics that any strengthening of the Catholic position in our society must impair the status of other groups, religious and secular. When this fear is removed, Catholics may expect a more sympathetic and reasonable attitude toward the situation in which they find themselves...
...peace-loving" intentions), won him cheers in the Assembly. Congress Party President Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, was tougher. Speaking in Kerala, the only Red-ruled state in India, she flatly declared that "Communism and democracy are incompatible-they are opposite." For the first time, there is widespread discussion of the threat posed to India by the armed might of Red China, and one Bombay weekly deplored the fact that "the portfolio of Defense is in the hands of a Cabinet minister [Krishna Menon] known for his leanings toward Communism." Indians who have long scoffed at what they called...
Military danger sometimes makes strange bedfellows, and for a while it looked as if Pakistan and India might patch up their differences in a defense agreement. Communist China's machinations in Tibet have had widespread effects, from the conciliatory talks in Karachi and New Delhi to proposals by Vice-President Nixon and Senator Kennedy that the U.S. boost India's rate of economic growth to that of China...
...passing an overdue labor reform bill, the Senate, as the expression of democracy at work, was reflecting not only public indignation at union corruption and racketeering, but also widespread dissatisfaction with Big Labor's outdated, class-against-class philosophy. What wide-ranging Pollster Samuel Lubell reported after talking to U.S. steelworkers (see Labor) indicates that many union members have come to see what some of their leaders have not yet acknowledged: the way for labor to get Sam Gompers' "more" is to share, fairly and responsibly, in the economy's overall growth...