Word: spaciousness
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...spacious Union Dining Hall, considered as a sure cure for tickets demands, is protected by such a welter of transformation difficulties that both Union officials and University Hall judge its use impractical. Possible damage to the newly varnished floors, the difficulty of restoring the tables for the next day's meals, and the scarcity of employees to complete the post-dance work all conspire to defeat the cause of the dance committee. Of the two remaining possibilities, Memorial Hall and the Indoor Athletic Building, Men Hall is already occupied by the Law School dance and the gym is committed...
...Execution Night in Nürnberg, and in the spacious second-floor pressroom at the courthouse, the air was heavy with tension and tobacco smoke. Eight newsmen, chosen by lot, had gone to see the war criminals die. To kill time, the 60-odd correspondents who were left behind paced the floor restlessly, watched each other with guarded eyes, plotted how they might scoop the pool. The minutes and hours ticked by. Around the world, they knew, deadlines were coming & going, while editors stood impatiently over teletypes...
...newsmen, Lockheed president Bob Gross proudly displayed the 92-ton Constitution, biggest plane ever built for the U.S. Navy. The Constitution will be slightly slower (300 miles an hour) than its sister ship, the Constellation. But it will carry 180 passengers on two spacious decks connected by spiral stairways, will have a 6,000-mile range (v. a maximum of 67 passengers and 3,000 miles for the Constellation...
...factories, warehouses, docks and long ore, coal and grain ships, a small boat will bring Leading Citizens to re-enact the landing (complete to an Indian greeter). There will be the inevitable Civic Luncheon (Clevelanders love anything with the word Civic in front of it). That night in the spacious downtown Mall there will be carnival: floats, a four-stage circus, hours of entertainment...
...dare let OPA die completely; rent controls, for example, are not so much as touched in either House or Senate bill. The time for haggling is growing short, and a ringing Presidential veto message will throw the blame and the responsibility exactly where they belong-in the spacious laps of a captious Congress...