Word: swathe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...license to a proposed Waco TV outlet, KWTX. CBS, which had been negotiating with KWTX, quickly decided to award its contract to KANG instead. Shortly thereafter, so did ABC. Then, with FCC approval, the Johnsons increased the transmitting power of their Austin station and made a costly swath across KWTX's viewing and advertising market. KWTX pushed an unsuccessful federal antitrust action against the Johnsons, finally gave up and agreed to sell them 29.05% of its stock in a trade for KANG-including the major network franchises that KANG had sewed...
...balding, broad-shouldered Paulie Muller, 38, head of the "Black Gang" and "King of Sankt Pauli." Flanked by his muscle man, a hulking waiter known as "Hans the Swine," and tailed by such hangers-on as "Boxer Fred," "Emil the Bull" and "Gambler Heini," Muller cut a wide swath along the Raper, intimidating bar owners and roughing up anyone who challenged him. But last October Paulie Muller met his nemesis in the form of a camel's-hair coat...
...acquired undeserved notoriety when Charlie Parker died in her apartment (BOP KING DIES IN HEIRESS' FLAT); she had merely made an honest stab at saving his life with gifts of money and medicine in his last few days. From then on, though, Nica cut a wide swath in the jazz world...
...location filming Mister Moses in Naivasha, Kenya, Carroll Baker, 32, was cutting quite a swath among the Masai tribe. The script called for native children to sing a Swahili Silent Night, but none of them spoke the language. So Actress Baker learned the Swahili and taught the kids. "At the end of the first day's lesson," she reported, "they were so good I gave them candy and soda pop. In return they introduced me to their favorite drink, a mixture of blood and milk." And Carroll drank it down. She was such a lady that the local Masai...
Other hostesses who cut a broad swath on the New Frontier...