Word: expand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EARLY 1915 David Wark Griffith finished a small film based on contemporary news reports. The Mother and the Law dealt with the oppression of the lowly by the rich and intolerant. Feeling that its theme was bigger than his treatment, Griffith began to expand the film and then became interested in parallel situations set in former societies. Some seventeen months later he had spent two million dollars, hired thousands of extras, and built acres of sets on a film eight hours long. Distributors refused to book a feature that ran for two evenings, and Griffith...
...Shakespeare (first edition 1807, second edition 1818) became the most popular expurgation in literary history. It gave Bowdler's name immortality as part of the language. But Perrin is up against not one man but a state of mind, and he has had the wit and learning to expand− his study into a brilliant little work of cultural history...
...Vietnam Moratorium advertises itself as "an effort to maximize public pressure to end the war by encouraging a broad cross-section of Americans to work against the war." It will expand by one day per month: is focused on ending the war with related issues (the draft, militarism, inflation) being brought in by participation on the local level; and encourages activities in which those unable to take the entire day off can participate. It calls its activities a "new polities" campaign-broad based participation, door-to-door canvassing, and small group contact...
Last week the transportation committee of the Wayne County board of supervisors recommended a ban on jumbo jets at Detroit's Metro Airport. To expand the ramp, terminal and baggage facilities, it was predicted, would cost an estimated $6,000,000-and there is simply no money available...
Because the Coop itself is in debt, it cannot be of very much direct monetary aid to the community. "To expand, the Coop had to borrow from local banks and the John Hancock Company. The terms of those loans expressly forbid us to invest in any other businesses," Brown explains. The Coop can, however, give about $5000 to charity each year, which it donates through the United Appeal...