Word: swathes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Calm as a Cow." Al-Anon has nearly 1,000 national chapters and 12,000 members. It exists because of one hard fact: the average alcoholic, apart from what he does to himself, cuts a devastating swath through his surroundings. The nation's 4,000,000 alcoholics have in one way or another impaired the lives of an estimated 20 million nonalcoholics, most of them relatives. Al-Anon bars active alcoholics, but is open to almost anybody who might have suffered from them-wives or husbands of reformed, unreformed, or backsliding alcoholics; remote relatives and friends of alcoholics; people...
People often thought Charlie Merrill spent his wealth as fast as he made it. He cut a wide swath through international café society, loved good food and champagne. He owned three luxurious homes (in Palm Beach, Fla., Southampton, L.I., and Barbados), and embarked on an equal number of marriages...
...started making them at the age of six. But they kept his bow to the catgut. At 18 he entered the Moscow conservatory, became a master class student. His teacher: father. Last week Fiddler Igor, a thin, large-faced, jug-eared man of 25, was scything an energetic swath through German concert halls, harvesting hurrahs and reaping reviews that said if he is not already as good as his daddy, he soon will...
...France's youngest Deputy, a handsome, tough tavern brawler with a law degree, a kind of lowbrow intellectual primitive who is currently the darling of Paris café society. Son of a fisherman, he won a scholarship to study law in Paris, cut an impressive swath through the Latin Quarter's bistros and student clubs. After graduation, he volunteered for service in Indo-China as a parachutist ("I was tired of amateur fighting"), but got there too late to fight...
...into pioneering a sort of householder's pushbutton paradise. Items: 1) beds that spring up and away from walls for easier sheet-tucking, 2) two bars with refrigerated drawers for glassware, perpetually cold ice buckets, automatic bottle-delivery tubes, 3) a tennis court sunken completely below the annoying swath of desert winds, 4) a swimming pool with surrounding tiles refrigerated to prevent hot feet, and at poolside a "spit" that will rotate sunbathers too lazy to turn themselves for an even...