Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Masters' Water-Ski Championship at Pine Mountain, Ga., and the National Motorcycle Race of Champions at Winchester...
...that ended in April. Spending by government, both federal and state, was bloated by 12% in 1965, much more than the still substantial growth of 8.4% in the gross national product. Erhard himself has been booed by coal miners in the Ruhr, whose industry is threatened by the Europe-wide revolution in oil, natural gas and atomic energy. The coal malaise has spread to steel-partly because the steel companies themselves produce 40% of West German coal-with the result that Krupp and other producers have begun to cut back working hours. And so, Free Enterpriser Erhard has clearly come...
...reader. A stocky little fellow with mouse-brown hair and the eyes of a day-old calf, Voznesensky stumbled onstage like a lost delivery boy. Yet as he stood before the microphone, he swelled as though a mighty wind had rushed into him. His eyes blazed, his arms flung wide, and out of his small body rolled a big dark golden tremolo that thundered in the theater like a Kyrie of medieval Kiev...
Binding usually began when a girl was five years old. Her feet, softened in a broth of monkey bones, were compressed in a bandage two inches wide and ten feet long. The four lesser toes were folded back under the sole, and the front of the foot was drawn back toward the heel until the instep collapsed upward into a grotesque ball of bone. The process sometimes required four years to complete, and during all that time the foot suppurated and the girl lived in punishing pain. Sometimes a child died of gangrene or blood poisoning. At last, the foot...
...William Lyons, 64, founder and chairman of Jaguar Cars Ltd., has always been one of Britain's most fiercely independent automakers. Known around his Coventry headquarters as the "Headmaster" for his autocratic rule, he has scoffed at the industry-wide merger trend, maintained that Jaguar would not go on the block "in my lifetime." Last week he made a surprising U-turn: after two years of quiet negotiations, Sir William and British Motor Corp. Chairman Sir George Harriman announced that B.M.C. will buy out Jaguar in a $51 million stock transfer deal...