Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when an assistant principal asked quietly: "All right, what do you really want us to do in the schools?" the audience was agonizingly silent. Last week parents of students at West Harlem's P.S. 125 kept 1,500 children out of school to dramatize their demand for a bigger voice in school affairs...
Even with the Inceptors' success, the two intramural leagues remain the most important part of the program, and Jeffer has bigger plans for them. He has organized the first annual Harvard Intramural Basketball Tournament, which will begin a week from today to determine the Harvard University champion...
...sure, appreciates more than does TIME the fact that life is what great individuals make it. The greatest are those, like Mr. Luce, who create something bigger than themselves as personalities-something that possesses, in effect, immortality. Usually it is an idea. In the case of Mr. Luce, it has been the infinite appreciation of, devotion to and development of the English language as the most powerful, most subtle, most beautiful, most versatile language in the world...
Lynn, on the contrary, looks like a hockey star trying to look like a movie star. She seems to be bigger than Vanessa and to have more arms and legs?quite nice legs that somehow look sexy even though they are semaphorically knock-kneed. Lynn, continues Ustinov, "gives the impression of knocking things down by mistake because she doesn't know her tail is wagging." She has a kewpie-doll face countersunk in a strawberry-blonde mane; she wears what looks like fluorescent face powder; and she sometimes paints her lower lashes, Twiggy-style, so far below the natural eyeline...
...August day in 1955. He was no sooner in the office than he found him self in hip boots, helping to shovel up the muddy debris of a flood that had immersed the plant. Adler, now 33, has since cleaned up at pen making in an even bigger way. As president of the renamed and revivified Waterman-Bic Pen Corp., he has expanded the Milford, Conn., firm into the nation's leading manufacturer of ballpoint pens, with 20% of the industry's estimated $120 million-a-year sales and 40% of its 1.2 billion-pens-a-year output...