Word: sprawls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Serpent of the Nile. The second night brought far vaster sweep, but greater sprawl. A marvel of language, full of what Coleridge called Shakespeare's "angelic strength," Antony with its 42 scenes is also full of history's tumultuous, haphazard movement. Not angelic wings, but seven-league boots are needed for this panoramic drama of conquests and civil wars that is even more a chronicle of power than it is of passion. The characters are uniformly worldlings, plotters, palter-ers, betrayers; even Antony is destroyed by lust, not love; and Cleopatra is as devious as she is passionate...
...search for the source of the Orinoco River has long been a favorite obsession among explorers of South America's jungles. The jaundiced waters of the third largest river in South America sprawl across the breadth of Venezuela like a gigantic fishhook. The shank fans out into a delta just below Trinidad. The barb is buried far to the southwest, deep in the tangled wilderness of the Parima Mountains. For the past four centuries adventurers and scientists have hunted its headwaters...
...kind of phenomenon that Charlie Wilson had learned to take almost for granted. In seven years as president of the General Electric Co., he was ringmaster of one of the biggest industrial shows on earth: a colossal sprawl of 115 factories which annually produced 200,000 different items (from miniature .06-gram light globes to 100-ton generator shafts) worth more than $1 billion, a talented industrial giant which could reach out and run the Hanford atomic works for the Government as well. During World War II, as the strong man of the WPB, he broke aircraft production bottlenecks...
...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...