Word: widener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four thousand miles from Independence, Mo., Harry Truman threw a wet blanket over fellow Americans' eagerness to travel. Congressmen who wanted to widen their horizons by trips overseas during the recess were told by the President they would have to pay their own expenses ($725.65 via A.T.C. New York to Paris...
...Zombie? At the least, the declaration was bound to widen war fissures in Japanese life and politics, encourage the groups who want a peace of survival...
...gained in a single generation and the slower groundswell of betterment which works through generations. hence the task of the high school is not merely to speed the bright boy to the top. it is at least as much (so far as numbers are concerned, far more) so to widen the horizons of ordinary students that they and, still more, their children will encounter fewer of the obstacles that cramp achievement...
...Germans, while massing most of their strength in front of Berlin, guessed rightly that Marshal Ivan Konev would try to complete his envelopment of Breslau and widen his bridgeheads in the Steinau area. But they guessed wrong about Konev's power. When the blow came it was in huge force-enough to carry through Steinau and on to Liegnitz, 35 miles west of Breslau...
Stettin's fall would mean that the Germans were failing to do what the U.S. and British troops had done in the Ardennes bulge: hold the shoulders of the salient and prevent the attacking tide from spreading beyond control. Stettin's capture would widen Zhukov's Berlin salient to safe proportions...