Word: sprawl
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...which Amanda Wingfield tries so desperately to live. If Jim occasionally comes across as crudely caricatured, like an American (like the American) in a British book or movie or play, it is largely because Mr. Williams has written him that way, and because Mr. Hancock has made him sprawl and slouch and lean. When Mr. Gesell is allowed to be nice and ordinary, as in most of his achingly poignant scene with Miss Humphreys, he too does fine work. If I have used word like "poignant" and "pathetic" with depressing frequency in this review, I should like to have used...
Third Game. For the opener in Los Angeles, a record World Series crowd of 92,294 began filling the parking lots that sprawl outside the Coliseum as early as 1 a.m. Dodger Pitcher Don Drysdale had control trouble, but Catcher Roseboro saved him by gunning out three of the touted Chicago speed boys (Rivera, Aparicio, Fox) on attempted steals of second. With the bases loaded in the seventh, gimpy Carl Furillo, 37, came off the Dodger bench to hit a bouncing ball past the frantic glove of Shortstop Aparicio, and drive in two runs. The Sox threatened in the eighth...
...short stories in these two collections have widely separate backgrounds-Norway and South Africa-but they both deal with the early 20th century, and the societies described in both are like cocoons with no hint of the world outside or the tumultuous sprawl of history...
...town dump is just a nice place for people to meet, leave trash, vow eternal friendship and go their ways." So spoke Northeastern University's Professor Everett Marston of Duxbury, Mass, one day last week. Duxbury (pop. 4,280), like many upper-middle-income bedroom communities that sprawl around Boston, is the scene of a new form of social phenomenon-somewhat like the old town pump-that is coming to full flower in New England. In Duxbury's town dump, as in Lincoln's, Hingham's and Wayland's, local citizens who can well afford...
...combination, which could be used in any metropolitan area, avoids what Sert calls the "sprawl or squeeze" alternatives. This refers to the tendencies of cities to become either extremely spread out or extremely crowded...