Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feet one-inch tall and 230 Ibs. wide, and there he was, blubbering like an onion peeler right out where everybody could see him. Pro football really can make strong men cry, and Washington Redskins Linebacker Sam Huff's turn came as he announced his retirement after a brutal twelve-year career, during which he made All-Pro five times. Now 33, Defenseman Huff (TIME Cover, Nov. 30, 1959) went from West Virginia to eight years of stardom with the New York Giants, playing on five championship teams, before he was traded to Washington four years ago. "Everyone...
...force of law in most cases protects the confidential nature of communications between lawyer and client, psychiatrist and patient, pastor and penitent (see RELIGION). Yet scientists studying antisocial or abnormal human behavior have no such protection, and are wide open to arrest for participating in illegal activities or concealing information about them. The result, many of them claim, is that little meaningful research is being done in the field of what sociologists call "deviant behavior...
They'd know that jaunty saunter 0anywhere. Bob Hope comes onstage with the cocky glide of a golfer who has just knocked off three birdies for a 68 and nailed Arnold Palmer to the clubhouse door. The crooked grin spreads wide, the clear brown eyes stay cool, and the audience roars its welcome; they can hardly wait for Hope to sock it to them. And so he does. Five, six gags a minute. Pertinent, impertinent, leering, perishing. And sometimes plopping, but only for an instant. When he misses, the famous scooped snoot shoots defiantly skyward, the prognathous jaw drops...
...copper workers have been idled by a strike of 26 unions, led by the United Steelworkers. All of the industry's Big Four-Kenhecott, Anaconda, American Smelting & Refining and Phelps Dodge-are affected. The unions demand hourly wage increases totaling 990 by their calculation and industry-wide bargaining; the companies have offered about 500 and have insisted on maintaining the same plant-by-plant bargaining system that copper men have always used. Last week, in a desperate effort to break the impasse that has nearly wiped out domestic copper supplies and rocketed the price of the metal bought abroad...
...amazes him. "These are bone-crushing jobs," he said. In the more limited job of Ambassador, Reischauer at first felt ffihe was "on the edge of a precipice: one false move could cause a catastrophe," and marvels at Rusk's ability to step off a plane after wearying world-wide trips and still make errorless, careful statements to the press...