Word: wider
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...past, the news of his coming had been heard amidst the clatter of traffic on Bangkok's twisted, crowded streets. Peddlers had passed it from sampan to sampan along the winding, traffic-jammed klong (canals) that made Siam's capital an eastern Venice. Strawhatted boatmen on the wider canals that crisscross the rice-rich central plains to the north had told it to farmers' wives in houses perched on stilts. Up the great rivers, the Chao Phraya, the Mekong, the Tha Chin, the Ping, the Si and the Mun, it had gone with wandering merchants thumbing barge...
United World Federalists, boasting wider public support than Streit's Atlantic Union Committee and some just as well-known backers,*would work out its proposal through U.N. The Cord Meyer group argued that Streit's proposal would split the non-Communist world, create a group of unhappy and neglected "Jim Crow" democracies. Under the Federalists' plan, the U.N. itself would be transformed into a world government. If Russia stayed out, the other nations would go ahead with their organization anyhow. No one but a bemused dreamer expected Russia would stay in in good faith. Streit...
...Wider & Deeper. At least one Protestant leader welcomed the Vatican directive as a step-though not a very big one -in the right direction. Said the World Council of Churches' General Secretary Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft in Geneva: "The very fact that such a document is issued at all is a clear indication that the ecumenical movement has begun to make its influence felt among the clergy and laity of the Roman Catholic Church. We can only rejoice that such is the case." But he noted with regret that the directive "remains below the level reached...
...Council's actin shows an increasing awareness on the part of the students to the wider community in which they dwell, it shows a consideration on the fact that there are other college besides Harvard and that Harvard can work with other schools on problems of general concern...
...first issue, The New Yorker promised "to be gay, humorous, satirical, but to be more than a jester . . ." It also announced firmly that it was not intended "for the old lady in Dubuque." More than a jester, today's New Yorker eyes far wider horizons than Manhattan's skylines. It travels with its "farflung correspondents" all the way from Third Avenue's saloons to Hiroshima, considers life and letters, as well as laughter, its province. Two-thirds of its 325,000 circulation is outside New York; it has 69 subscribers in Dubuque. Harold Ross, founder, editor...