Word: extend
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...artillery and infantry. The R. A. F., ranging even more widely, rained bombs on Tobruch. Derna, even on the main Italian air bases across Libya at Benina, Benghazi, Castel Benito. Graziani had some 200,000 men left and possibly-just possibly-he was lying back to let the British extend themselves into Libya...
...poll cannot be denied. But by questioning our "devotion to truth," by using such terms as "examples of distortion," "hedging,' and "suspicion," you leave realm of argument. You have a right to question, but you do not have a right to accuse falsely; your right to criticize does not extend to the right to slander. The ethics of the Crimson as well as the policies it advocates stand in danger of repudiation by the students of Harvard. Richard M. Haber '41, For the Editors of Defense
Through the columns of the CRIMSON the Clubs extend a hearty invitation not only to all students but to all officers and members of the Harvard Club nearest to them during the Christmas recess...
...year and a half ago Bob Ramspeck went up against the spoilsmen-masters of legislative sabotage. He had drafted a bill empowering the President to cover into the civil service by examinations some 200,000 job holders in 26 Federal agencies; to extend departmental Washington pay scales to the field service. This was something like combined atheism and blasphemy at a religious revival. The spoilsmen got busy at killing the bill. They gave it the works: delay, amendments that subverted its whole purpose, points of order, objections, pigeonholings, pressure. Ramspeck resurrected the measure, answered the lies, used a pulmotor...
...extend the Monroe Doctrine to Ireland and send convoyed ships that far? I think the British can take care of them the rest of the way. If we showed that we were in this war by such a step, not only the Irish but everyone else would take notice. Turkey's attitude would be changed. Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Spain would remain stiffened in opposition to Hitler...