Word: far-flung
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...windows. "I saw all the trees below his window festooned with the typewriter ribbon," a friend remembers. Still, Unterecker cautions, "if Crane tossed out of windows everything that his acquaintances have him tossing, most of America, half of Europe, and all of Mexico would still be littered with far-flung typewriters." He invaded the lives of his many good friends the way his parents invaded his. The complex emotions of his life, "twisted with the love of things irreconcilable," make his brief career long in the telling...
...Hoover and Bonneville dams and the Alcan Highway, and last year completed $1.4 billion worth of work on the ambitious new San Francisco Bay Area rapid-transit system. Utah's revenues of $1 13.3 million and earnings of $16,543,000 last year resulted from such diverse and far-flung sources as real estate sales on California's Monterey Peninsula, mining operations in Peru, Australia and Canada, and a fleet of nine super-size ore and oil carriers, to which three new 128,000-ton ships will soon be added...
...Lady: instead his idea is to set a romance in ancient Egypt and happily let it go at that. With the connivance of director Michael Benthall and designer Michael Annals, both of whom have their eyes in socket, Her First Roman is a snappy realization of this not awfully far-flung ambition...
...Feed Itself. Partly responsible for ADB's go-slow approach to loans is the task of getting to know its far-flung customers-and vice versa. To accomplish this, the bank offers technical assistance where necessary, as well as surveys of its findings, including a recent study of food problems facing Indonesia and South Korea. Watanabe's pragmatic belief, which is reflected in such projects as the Thai loan and the Filipino study, is that "the region's first concern is feeding itself...
...planned conspiracy. The rumor mills were lubricated in part by the assiduously cultivated doubts that some still entertain about the killing of John F. Kennedy. In this case, however, the conspiracy theorists could point to the fact that, though the gunman was clearly identified, he remained -for all the far-flung resources of the FBI-mysteriously at large...