Word: broad
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...Squawks. That oversight was only one of the charges made by the review board in a searing report that runs some 3,300 pages and weighs 19 Ibs. Although six of the eight board members work for NASA, they lodged a broad indictment against the conduct of the entire $23 billion Apollo program by the space agency and North American, the prime contractor. There were, said the report, "many deficiencies in design and engineering, manufacture and quality control...
Danny is a Hasid-a member of the ultra-Orthodox sect that affects earlocks, broad-brimmed hats and long, black overcoats-while Reuven, the novel's narrator, practices a more liberal Judaism. As the son of a tzaddik (as the Hasids' hereditary rabbis are called), Danny must follow his father as the sect's leader, though his personal bent is toward psychology. Gradually, the two boys work toward Danny's inevitable break with tradition and discover along the way that the humanistic content of Judaism far outweighs its rigid ritualism...
...York Times correspondent) commands a prose style all too reminiscent of the newspaper he satirizes. And the satire itself is nowhere near the first rank of press spoofery, which is occupied alone by Evelyn Waugh's brilliant Scoop! The Whole Truth can only be taken as a broad burlesque of pat-a-cake editors, cream-puff reporters, puff-piece journalists-crumb-bums...
John Newman did a good job of filling Pardee's shoes in the high jump this winter, but his 6 ft. 4 in. is not Pardee's 7 ft. and won't place him among the East's best high jumpers. The Crimson's only healthy broad jumper of note is Tim Hatfield. But he will have to improve on his indoor efforts -- all under 22 feet -- to approach Pardee's accomplishments. Godwin Nwokoye is the leading triple jumper...
Brown may bother the Crimson in a few events, but by and large the meet should be an easy early season effort. The Brownies do have potential troublemakers in Win Anakwa (sprints), Tim Fahey (broad jump and triple jump), Jim Wich (middle distance) and Chip Ennis (two mile...