Word: sprawled
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...itself readily to change has proved that Karl Marx was a better journalist than prophet. Today's U.S. economy would surprise even those who helped to shape its past. Alexander Hamilton would be shocked by the size of its mounting debt, and Thomas Jefferson would frown on the sprawl of the megalopolitan cities that feed it. The new economy has more competition than Theodore Roosevelt would have deemed possible, and more peacetime Government direction than Franklin Roosevelt ever dreamed...
...years, the south end of the lake will be a slum," says San Francisco Attorney William Evers, a longtime Tahoephile. Along the northern shore, where prosperous Californians and Nevadans used to settle for summers of boating, fishing, hiking and mountaineering, a sprawl of jerry-building has sprung up to scar the scenery and threaten Tahoe's crystalline water with sewage...
...number or generally out of sight. "Speaking off the record," one University official confides, "I am in favor of hiring Negroes." The fact that an administrator would be unwilling to make such a statement publicly intimates that, if Harvard is not dying of hypocrisy, the confusion of its bureaucratic sprawl is paralyzing...
...American Building is not as high as the Empire State, nor does it sprawl over as much acreage as the Pentagon, nor is it as monumental as the Roman Baths of Caracalla, after which Penn Station was modeled. But set down where it is, near one of the world's busiest railroad stations, shaped as it is (eight sides), lit with incandescent lighting installed by Broadway Lighting Expert Abe Feder, it is bound to command attention...
...haunted by visions of people he has cheated in his life. At times they sprawl all over his room, tormenting him so much he spills his soup and screams in agony. In the afternoon, when he is feeling almost amiable, he tosses some bread crumbs to a sickly pigeon. He runs out of crumbs, but the pigeon continues to stare at him with a baleful red eye. ''If I look at it long enough it will go away,'' the old man thinks. The pigeon pecks at his shoe. "Go away," the old man cries, kicking...