Word: narrowing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Nugent declared that Aiken "attempted to narrow" the scope of discussion by keeping the speakers from debating Blanshard's book, "American Freedom and Catholic Power...
While the margin will be very narrow, Labor will be returned, Owen predicted. "Of course, after the 1945 election no one can be too certain of the winner beforehand," he continued. The majority, Owen thought, is probably well satisfied with what Labor has done since...
...This term, a long scheduled constitutional revision takes place as provided for in that charter. As a basis for this revision, a Council group last term prepared reports on the function of the Council in seven different fields, but the author of each report was limited to one narrow sector of Council affairs. Hence the evaluation fails to point out the fundamental split in Council activity, a division which must considered if reorganization is to be successful...
Anyone who wants to trim Government spending is apt to be branded as a narrow-minded pinchpenny who would starve the poor, paralyze the processes of government and hold back progress. None of these charges would quite fit Mississippi's Representative Jamie L. Whitten, or answer what he had discovered about the living habits of the U.S. Insect-Control Agency, the Agriculture Department's Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. His House appropriations subcommittee had dispatched three congressional investigators to discover how the bureau had spent its last $7,000,000 budget. Sample findings...
...angakok doesn't consider sinful what a white preacher considers sinful, but knows only one kind of sin - that which harms the community . . . An angakok . . . believes in every spirit [but] the white men are exceedingly narrow-minded and conceited people, and that's the reason why they dare say there exists, at the most, one spirit-theirs, of course! . . . Each tribe has the god it deserves, for gods are made in the image of those that believe in them. Therefore the stupid have a stupid god, the intelligent an intelligent god, the good a good god, the wicked...