Word: broad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there were 162 sexual assaults in the District of Columbia. This figures out at 20 per 100,000 population-roughly double the national average. Last month a teen-age Negro hid behind a stairwell door in the State Department Building, grabbed a 40year-old secretary around the breasts in broad daylight, fled when she screamed. Security guards were late in responding because they had been called to another part of the building to investigate an attempted purse-snatching. Last week additional guards were assigned to the building, and the head of the department's Passport Office, Miss Frances...
...more leisurely. Where Bombay is sparked by its Parsi businessmen (descended from 8th century Persian fire worshipers), Madras is tempered by Tamil intellectualism. New Delhi-founded in 1911 by the British -is the youngest of the nation's great cities, and its least distinctive. Dust swirls through its broad, beige streets; beggars sleep on its sidewalks beneath gaudy murals; and pallid politicians occupy center stage...
Johnson has made broad advances on the civil rights front, which, while leaving much still to be solved, have brought some justice and a certain amount of peace to race relations...
...navigators who discovered the realm in 1472 tried to convert the natives to Christianity, the only relict that stuck when they left was the concept and practice of crucifixion. Amidst a dark rain forest, Benin became a terrifying, slave-trading, yet advanced civilization centered in a city with 30 broad streets surrounded by ramparts ten feet high...
...right to decide on its own whether to go to war with the rest of the countries in the pact. Bucharest boycotted the plan of Comecon, the bloc's common market, to make the nation merely a provider of gasoline and grain, instead is busy building a broad industrial base from which to trade West as well as East...