Word: sprawlingly
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...beauties of Radcliffe, but swoop swiftly to earth again, thusly: "Ivy walls notwithstanding, Radcliffe is an urban college. Radcliffe in the spring is lovely. The apple tree is in full bloom and the grass is green and inviting. But the Radcliffe Yard is not Coney Island. Don't sprawl about; even exam period is not an excuse for unladylike behavior...
When completed in two years, the 17,000 houses in the $136 million Lakewood project will sprawl over 3,500 acres. With some 70,000 people, Lakewood will dwarf such long-established U.S. cities as Poughkeepsie, N.Y. and Holyoke, Mass. Land has been set aside for a massive shopping center, and additional areas are being blocked out for 17 churches, 20 schools and 37 playgrounds. So fast were lots grabbed up that when one church delayed its decision on a location for a week, it found that 91 home foundations had been built on the site it wanted...
...shirts, sweaters & skirts, bobby-sox and loafers, of jalopies, motor-scooters, bikes, and a litter of candy-wrappers inside almost every desk. Pupils call each other "meal" or "mope," .tell each other not to be a "squeegie" or a "sizzle." They slouch through the halls, let their legs sprawl out under desks. As for chewing gum, said one teacher, "If I tried to stop them I wouldn't have time for anything else...
Texas, Li'l Darlin1 (book by John Whedon & Sam Moore; produced by Studio Productions, Inc. & Anthony Brady Farrell Productions) is suitably Texan in size and general good nature. But it is no less Texan in sprawl; it ranges over a lot. of flat country, strikes snags more often than oil, and displays no great sense of direction. Half satiric and half folksy, it is never quite sure whether it is stalking wild life or big shots, finally bags neither...
Harvard did not appear so tired physically as it did last year, when the team had to sprawl out on the floor during a time out. Saturday, it gathered around Shepard and, standing, got instructions during intermissions...