Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...church and bank designed by Eero Saarinen, a school by San Francisco's John Carl Warnecke and a town library being designed by New York's I. M. Pei. And Saarinen's most spectacular building, the John Deere headquarters, stands on a wide sweep of lawns in Moline...
...nothing much was done about it. At least not until the members of the Warren Commission became outraged by the prejudicial newspaper coverage, on a nation-wide scale, of Lee Harvey Oswald, accused as the assassin of President Kennedy. By December of 1964, the American Bar Association (ABA) had organized a special committee to do something about...
...members of the Committee are not protecting a selfish interest by wishing to limit freedom of the press. The eleven members include three former ABA presidents, two law school deans, two former U.S. attorney generals, and a Supreme Court justice. A wild, wide-roaming press probably exposes more criminals than a press limited by their proposals; the former would be more in their inter- est when they serve as criminal prosecutors...
...which seems to fit the preconceived idea we have of Madison Avenue, an image which somehow includes shark skin suits, three martini lunches, ulcers before thirty, and infernal white knights charging from our television screens. It is America's fascination with this half-myth that perhaps accounts for the wide sales (400,000) of Olgivy's book. The very title, "Confessions of an Advertising Man" indicates a delicious expose, rather than a witty Robert Morse-like "how to" book. Olgivy wryly acknowledges this, saying, "It always seems to be displayed next to biographies of whores...
Sitting in the second row, the wide eyed Orphilia with streaming long hair, until now hypnotized by his words, nodded vigorously in agreement. A girl with flowerleaves behind her ear squirmed on the floor...