Word: widener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mental processes. To Pauling, this suggests simply that the brain is more sensitive than most other organs to even a mild deficiency. He would broaden the range of "essential nutrilites" to include vitamins, amino acids and fatty acids, and probably a host of other substances. He would also widen the range of emotional illnesses for which biochemical causes, or at least components, should be sought...
Harvard jumped out at the start stroking at 41. They gained a length lead after 30 yards and settle down to a 35 beat pace for the rest of the race. They continued to widen their lead over the course, finishing five and a half lengths ahead of Dartmouth...
Starting out at 41 strokes per minute, the Crimson held a full three-length margin after 100 meters. Captain and cox Brian Sullivan settled them into a pace of 34 strokes per minute for the rest of the race, and they did not widen their margin thereafter...
...Aviv I was told that I would find the occupied West Bank of Jordan poor. One Israeli told me that agriculture was largely unmechanized and therefore backward; that the roads were narrow and bad. He added that the Israelis had now started to improve and widen them. At the Government Tourist Bureau in Tel Aviv I asked how I could get to Nablus, the most prosperous city of the West Bank, some 50 miles from Tel Aviv. I was informed that there was no bus, unless I wanted to travel via Jerusalem. So I went...
...past had rarely been articulated or even felt crept into the American consciousness: Is the U.S., after all, as fallible in its aims and unsure of its answers as any other great power? Can-and should-the Viet Nam war be won? Can the nation simultaneously allay poverty, widen opportunity, eradicate racism, make its cities habitable and its laws uniformly just? Or will it have to jettison urgent social objectives at home for stern and insistent commitments abroad...