Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidate likes to think of himself as a loser and most of the minor politicians delude themselves by imagining that their ability to pack a banquet hall is indicative of city-wide support. Likewise they imagine that the intense support and encouragement they receive in their own neighborhoods extends throughout the entire city. Collins must plan on polling poorly in each of the neighborhoods which produces an opponent for him, and, thus, he relies on only a few "safe" districts. But in 1963, the plurality that these districts gave him was enough to secure his renomination...
Many representatives felt that the decision was a holding action. The ECAC would like to have financial need established nation-wide as the only basis for granting aid and it is just waiting for the NCAA to adopt the policy the ECAC wants...
Gerald Holton walked across his office to a convenient blackboard and drew a picture of a funnel. "Kids start out as a very non-homogeneous mix," he commented, sketching oddly shaped particles floating over the wide end of the tunnel. "Octohedrons, decahedrons . . . but" -- he elongated the funnel -- "by the time they get through high school and college, they are all the same...
...retreat into his research for two or three years," Holton reflects. "But a university appointment is a great place from which to get involved. A scientist's life here can be almost kalaidoscopic. It doesn't have to be, but the bounds of human experience can be very wide...
...sign in St. Lawrence's crammed Appleton Arena read "Go Saints, God's on your side!" and the Larries' first goal bore out this theory. Captain Gary Croteau converted a face off in center ice into a fast break and got off a hard shot wide of the goal...