Word: breadth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glance in the New Brunswick, NJ. police station and told the cops, "That's the guy." A dozen other merchants nodded their heads positively. The detectives brought in Betty Lester, the buxom widow he had been sparking, and accused them both of passing bad checks through the length & breadth of New Jersey. At the trial, 16 witnesses testified in their behalf, but the liquor dealer was coldly positive:' Cliff Shephard and Betty Lester were sentenced to nine months in the county workhouse. That...
More often the Voice really manages to convey the breadth and the vigor of the American land. A recent instance was the dramatized history of the Missouri Valley, including the Astor Fur Co. and Custer's Last Stand. The piece ended in this trite but nevertheless moving passage: "The great buffalo herds of yesterday live only in the songs of the West now, and where not long ago there were log cabins and small settlements, modern cities bloom-Kansas City, Omaha, Bismarck and all the others. Bridges cross the winding river, carry trains and automobiles from one bank...
...observer could tell, boundlessly sure of himself. Critics could say that, even in a time of prosperity, the President should worry more about rising unemployment and deepening deficits; in a time when Russia had bulged nearly halfway across Europe and across the full breadth of Asia, he should spend his days & nights acquiring arms and achieving aims. Of course, they were right. But there was a lot to be said for a man who could walk away from a collision with the moon, the stars and all the planets, lead his nation through five troublesome years and come...
...rebellious gigolo, is one of many things in this novel that will cause admirers of Britain's Margaret Kennedy to grope for their shoes and steal away. In The Constant Nymph Author Kennedy showed that it was quite possible to write a bestseller that, though of no great breadth, was intelligent, sensitive to life and very likable. The Feast catches her with her literary standards down...
Losses that set the Crimson back and out of the meet were in the freestyle events, while exceptional times by Bob Berke gave him only hair-breadth seconds in the 220 and 440, and Captain Joe Fox lost to Indian junior Jock McIntyre by a nose...