Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There will be no exams, a limited number of students, and a wide variety of tutors," Chalmers said yesterday...
With 28 seconds remaining, Smith sent a bouncing 30-foot shot past Thornton and Harvard hopes flickered. The Crimson mounted a last drive, and a pass from Otness gave Smith a shot at the goal's upper left corner. It went wide, and the buzzer sounded a 5-4 defeat...
...obvious that her husband's emotional aridity has left her sexually parched. "Oh, I was thirsty," she says, as she drains a glass of water in some seductive byplay with Brother Lenny. Soon Lenny is brushing her face with kisses. "She's wide open," observes Brother Joey, taking over the love play on sofa and floor. All this happens in front of Teddy, who inexplicably makes no gesture of protest. He still maintains his deadpan cool when his father and brothers propose that Ruth stay on and earn her keep by working for them as a part-time...
...determined search for the new moon had actually been hindered by the spectacular rings, which reflect sunlight brilliantly, obscuring other objects in the vicinity of the planet. But though the rings are wide, they are also incredibly thin-perhaps even less than a foot thick. Thus every 14 years or so, when the earth passes through Saturn's equatorial plane and astronomers can get an edge-on view of the rings, their glow practically disappears. In place of their familiar, disklike shape, the rings appear as a faint, straight line, much like the side view of a phonograph record...
...gulf of experience which results from this change in attitude is too deep for either group to cross completely. The two-group classification oversimplifies the split, lumping together a wide variety of complicated feelings and outlooks. But the basic difference in mentality is real and important, and may have very practical implications for the future of this country...