Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist! Crackpot!" howled his political opponents, and Blandings was on the run. He ran the gamut of local political pitfalls before he was through, and landed in most of the social & economic ones too. At last, weary and harried but doing his best to look like Moses leading his people through the Wilderness, Blandings sold his dream house and brought his family back to a Manhattan apartment. "Just think," his wife sighed happily, "out "of a side bedroom window you can catch a little glimpse of Central Park...
Statistics about the entering class at the Business School this year run the gamut just like a neat business index which covers a long period of time...
...programs offered run the gamut through language, literature, flue arts, music, natural sciences, history, political and social sciences, philosophy, psychology, and mathematics. Students are tested by examinations and marked on the same scale as in college courses...
...open-eyed into what is one of radio's largest arsenals of bridge music. Picking his way through the library at Manhattan's WOR (Mutual), he found on file, under generic titles such as Love, Hate, Conflict, etc., "6,000 bridges,* and believe me [they] run the gamut." Even more to his satisfaction, most of them had also been tagged by their embittered composers with tongue-in-cheek titles "more descriptive than the music...
...actually averse to sex. [But they dislike] having their sex dished up as bait. The only thing worse than an obviously bad paper is a paper . . . which is obviously good and makes ugly sounds as a matter of deliberate policy. . ." He thought that the Post had almost run the gamut of sex and sensation, predicted that it would soon inspire "a feeling not only of boredom but of distaste and revulsion." Concluded Heckscher: "A newspaper is neither read nor edited in watertight compartments. A liberal newspaper must be liberal all through; it must pay its readers the compliment. . . of assuming...