Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston and a wide swath of eastern New England, it was like the return of a nightmare. From the North Shore to the South Shore, Worcester to Charlestown, doors slammed shut, and women scurried furtively along cold, windswept streets. Husbands hurried home to be with their wives, and there was a run on locks-though, as authorities dourly admitted, the man they were after could open just about any lock in existence. Albert DeSalvo, 35, the self-confessed "Boston Strangler" and sexual felon, had escaped...
...winners. One contestant sent in a dollar bill folded into a glider with the explanation: "It goes fast." There was a flying-saucerlike "Frisbee Flyer"-two paper plates and an infinitesimal folded fleck of foil only one-eighth of an inch long by one-sixteenth of an inch wide-made, appropriately, by Aerospace Corp.'s Space
...California's Stan Smith and Graebner. He got by them all. Against Ashe, Pasarell had to use his brain instead of his bomb when he hit a wild streak and could not find the court with his first serve. He switched tactics by easing up, angling his serves wide into the corners, and rushing the net consistently. Time after time, he caught Ashe out of position with quick, accurate volleys...
...drive which will start this spring. He plans to mail surveys to all alumni, hoping to find why those who don't subscribe don't. He also wants to boost the Bulletin's paltry advertising revenue, using information from the survey to make the magazine look attractive to a wide range of advertisers...
...sophomore repeatedly outran his defender and six times got open under the Brown basket for fast break layups to break the game wide open...