Word: spaciousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modern village of Pella (24 miles northwest of Salonika), a Greek farmer was digging in his basement in 1957 when he stumbled on two limestone Ionic columns that turned out to be part of the spacious courtyard of a nobleman's house in ancient Pella. At what is now confirmed as Pella's site, archaeologists have since uncovered mosaic floors of exceptional beauty and size-testament to the splendor of Pella's patrician life in Alexander's time...
...Russians have lagged in the construction of the delicate instrumented craft that the U.S. puts up for communications, observing the weather, studying the sun, photographing the moon and probing the planets. But, as yet, the U.S. has nothing to match their powerful, reliable boosters and their spacious, multi-manned satellites. The whole world was understandably impressed by the latest Soviet success...
Then he went to Washington, a more spacious classroom. Journalists, lawyers, and Presidents learned to read with care and trepidation the lengthy, percise black-ink memoranda he signed "F. F." and sent off in reams daily. His illness left the fine hand uneven, and made the writing a torture, but the notes still came, and they still were read, shuddered at, and cherished...
...beautiful for spacious skies...
...June 22 in Darien, Conn., had seemed like many another summer night. A vice president of the Johns-Manville Corp., Francis E. Dutcher, and his wife gave a dinner party for their debutante daughter Nancy. Then there was a dance for about 250 youngsters under a tent on the spacious grounds of Psychiatrist George S. Hughes and his wife, who were giving it with their friends, the William F. Otterstroms (he is general auditor of the Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp.) and the Dudley Felts (he is a consulting engineer), in honor of the families' three debutante daughters. The trouble...