Word: roomier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walk into freedom. By order of the Tito government, Archbishop Stepinac had been conditionally released, after serving five years of a 16-year sentence on a trumped-up charge of wartime collaboration with the fascists. Actually, he was on his way to a roomier internment: his native village of Krasic, where, as a government communiqué said, "the former archbishop" would have to limit himself to the duties of a simple priest...
Levine is determinedly a city boy. The youngest of a Boston shoemaker's eight children, he was upset when his family moved out of the tenements of the South End of Boston to roomier Roxbury. Eight-year-old Jackie was "horrified by the trees and piazzas." He consoled himself "by making drawings of drunkards and other things I remembered...
Chrysler Corp. also was stepping up production. With the introduction of its 1950 Plymouth, Chrysler had also finished the parade of its new, lower and roomier models. Before long, it hoped to be producing 7,100 cars and trucks a day. As a sales point, Chrysler had also trimmed off extras so that a Plymouth could be bought for as low as $1,295 f.o.b. Detroit...