Word: radius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buckley, Jr. Congressman Francis Walter and Admiral Lewis Strauss were supposed to come, but didn't make it. Each of these gentlemen was presented with a plaque for services to the nation. Such a phalanx might well be expected to draw every ambulatory conservative within a fifty-mile radius...
...process accelerated. All entertainment and cultural activities were proscribed outside of a small radius, and logically, the facilities of the shelter expanded enormously. Restaurants, theaters, recreation centers, and almost all aspects of social existence ultimately became shelter-oriented...
Whenever a single animal comes down with foot-and-mouth, the farm on which it lives and all the surrounding territory in a 15-mile radius are declared "infected areas." At the height of this year's outbreak, most of Scotland was posted and only two English counties north of London were out of quarantine. Even sportsmen and gourmets were affected: fox hunting was banned in certain areas, racing pigeons could not be transported to and from Northern Ireland, and wild stag -a favorite seasonal dish-was swept from table. From Dorset to Angus, husbandmen feverishly telephoned neighbors...
...intended to move in, he was met by a seven-man Commission on Human Relations and questioned about his job, the size of his family, whether or not he was a member of any active pressure groups (he was not). Then two-man teams moved through a two-block radius of Wilson's new house to acquaint each household with the facts about the new neighbors...
...castlelike dachas rising behind heavy fences." Khrushchev lives in a dacha of Czarist proportions, but for others he favors "setting up hotels and boarding houses for workers in the loveliest places around Moscow." Sovietskaya Rossia went further, demanded a ban on any new dacha building within a 30-mile radius of the Kremlin to "assure healthy rest places for the broadest masses...