Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than the speed of sound. The sharp explosive sound is pushed along in front of the object for as long as the supersonic flight lasts. At 1800 miles per hour, or about two and one-half times the speed of sound, the SST would leave behind a 50-mile-wide "bang zone," affecting perhaps five million people on a single flight across...
...results of the pass laws is that they have led to wide arrests of Blacks for comparatively trivial misdemeanors like being in the wrong part of town without a pass. They also allow the white police to stop any African at will and demand his papers. The jail population is somewhere near 75,000, and there were 123 people executed in South Africa last year...
...Issue. Scammon's prescience springs in large part from his wide experience in studying people, politics and governments in the U.S. and abroad. He has observed and analyzed elections for the U.S. Government, and, in his capacity as the director of the Elections Research Center of the privately operated Governmental Affairs Institute, in a clutch of other countries, including Russia, Israel and the Dominican Republic. He has served as a senior consultant to the Lou Harris Poll (1959-61), is now chairman of the Select Committee on Western Hemisphere Immigration, a senior research consultant to the National Advisory Commission...
...only say that if there had been practically no wind at all at Newport, R.I., last week, Dame Pattie might have been competition for Bus Mosbacher and the U.S. defender, Intrepid. As it was, the winds ranged from seven to 22 knots, and Pattie lost three straight races by wide margins. On not one single point of sailing did the Australian 12-meter yacht prove superior...
...press its fight. At 1.8%, the bar price rise was small indeed. But the industry is now on notice to be wary of taking the rumored next step: a boost in sheet and strip steel, which as a key auto-industry item would be certain to have wide impact...