Word: breadths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work, with only a day and a half of rest, Dick Nixon had a severe case of flu. Todd began dosing Nixon with Achromycin and Mysteclin, spraying his raw throat with cortisone and Pontocaine, urged him to slow down his 15,000-mile swing through the length and breadth of the U.S. More specifically, the doctor begged Nixon to cancel his speech that night in Salt Lake City-but Nixon refused...
...Bible. Like many, a Dutch townsman who struck it rich, Rembrandt splurged wildly, bought up collections of armor and costumes that he could use as painting props, moved into a palatial house on the edge of Amsterdam's Jewish Quarter. His drawings and etchings spread his fame the breadth of Europe. But his years of commercial success began to wane when his masterpiece, Captain Banning Cocq's Shooting Company (known as The Night Watch before its recent cleaning revealed a late-afternoon scene), met with disapproval from patrons who found themselves lost in the parade...
...Woodworth is not content just to perform any old music well. He quite rightly takes seriously his role of un-official cultural ambassador, and has gone to great pains to select a repertory of 55 works that is unique in breadth and quality...
Penn State soon got to know him not only as a prodigious worker but also as a man of breadth and tolerance. By 8:10 every morning he was in his office; by 9:30 his voluminous correspondence was out of the way, and he was ready for the day's business that often lasted into the night. In his first year he traveled 30,000 miles in Pennsylvania to find out what services his campus could render the state's agriculture and industry. He raised faculty salaries 35%, enlarged the library...
Stripped of his social functions, his sprigs of parsley, his actresses and courtesans, Hugo flourished in his romantic role of "Great Exile." "I am living the life of a monk," he wrote exultantly from Belgium. "I have a bed which is about a hand's-breadth wide . . ." From his narrow couch, Hugo fled on to the Channel Islands, after leaving most of his sizable fortune in investments in a Belgian bank and accepting from the Belgian Prime Minister "an offer of shirts" to soften the road of poverty...