Word: wide
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When the 1954 Geneva Conference divided Viet Nam in two, it established a demilitarized buffer zone between the Communist North and anti-Communist South. The zone is six miles wide. It roughly follows the 17th parallel from the mountainous Laotian border in the west through thickly jungled foothills to the fertile paddies along the coast. For twelve years, it was the quietest place in all of Viet...
...Indians, Lake Tahoe meant "Big Water," a laconic understatement even for an Indian. Twenty-two miles long, twelve miles wide and one-third of a mile deep, Tahoe is the third largest alpine lake in the world (after the Peruvian-Bolivian Titicaca and Oregon's Crater Lake). Poured out over California, it would submerge the entire state in 14½ in. of water. Withal, Tahoe is a volcanic and glacial marvel, ringed for one-third of the year by snow-dazzling mountain tops. To Mark Twain, Tahoe was a "noble sheet of blue water." In the past decade...
...defective gene was only one of tens of thousands in each sex cell (sperm or ovum); it was recessive, meaning that whenever it was paired with a normal gene, its maleficent action was blocked. Even so, it spread so far and wide that it eventually appeared among Ashkenazic families that did not know they were related. Then a husband and wife, each bearing the gene, began to have dysautonomic children. On the average, one-fourth of the offspring of such marriages will have two normal genes (see diagram); two will be healthy but carry one abnormal gene, while the fourth...
...increase in machinists' wages and other benefits. It actually made little difference that the machinists, defying their own union leadership, later voted down even that hefty hike. The fact was that Johnson himself had ignored the guideposts-withal his rationale about airline "productivity"-and now the doors were wide open to above-the-line moves by both labor and management in all industries. That point was soon proved when the steel industry last week imposed major price increases, and the Johnson Administration could not in conscience do anything except complain...
...fact, France's only going color setup is a closed-circuit link between the paddock and the betting windows at Longchamp race track. That made even more apropos the remark of French Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte, who claimed that France, in the hope of Europe-wide agreement, had so far been holding back its color TV industry "like horses at the starting gate." Said Peyrefitte: "Now we're telling them...