Word: broad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...march in Washington. From the wide variety of comments 1 made, your article featured the only ones which were negative in tone. Nor did the article mention my much more extensive statements welcoming everyone who wanted to join the march and expressing the hope that attendance would be as broad and inclusive as possible. So let me reiterate now: nobody is excluded from the march; there are only a few simple ground rules directed toward maintaining the unity and dignity of the occasion. H. Stuart Hughes Professor of History
...present Councillor, Bernard Goldberg, first ran with CCA endorsement and lost; in the next election, he declined endorsement and won. If campaigns became truly city-wide, as they would under plurality, many observers believe the CCA would have trouble finding candidates able to cultivate a broad base of support...
After sunset on Oct. 20, a strange and luminous object will rise above the western horizon and make a broad sweep across the darkening sky. Beginning as a fuzzy smear of light, it is expected to grow brighter and brighter until its 20 million-mile tail stretches put to look like a new Milky Way; then its head will appear with a light as great as the full moon. As the newly discovered Ikeya-Seki comet makes its rendezvous with the sun, it will curve high above the northern sky in one of the most spectacular celestial shows...
...that modesty was too much for Jim ("Mudcat") Grant, the American League's No. 1 pitcher (season's record: 21-7). "I'm cool, sexy and suave," Grant announced, and he confided to newsmen that his broad shoulders were the result of eating possum as a kid. Star of the Twins' 8-2 first-game victory, Mudcat was knocked out of the box in the fourth game at Los Angeles. Two days later, with the Twins trailing 3-2 in the Series, he trudged to the mound again. Fortified by hot and cold showers...
...homer! It's a homer!" Mudcat yelled, dancing gleefully around the bases and broad jumping the last 10 ft. to the plate. Newsmen wanted to know what kind of pitch he had hit. Grant grinned. "It was the best pitch I ever saw. A curve that dropped a foot. And I hit it into the teeth of a gale...