Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Careful gave Carrot a battery-powered bug in a walnut-covered container to match the bookcase. It was 13 in. long, 1½ in. wide and ½ in. deep and contained a microphone and a transmitter that could be activated by an outside high-frequency signal to broadcast conversations from deep inside State Department offices. No sooner was the meeting over than Mrkva gingerly handed the bug to waiting FBI agents...
...last week swore in Sergeant Major William O. Wooldridge, 43, as the highest-ranking enlisted man in the 191-year history of the U.S. Army. Wooldridge, who became the first noncom to hold the new rank of Sergeant Major of the Army (the Marines have had a comparable corps-wide post since 1957) will serve in effect as the G.I.'s generalissimo. Acting as both the soldier's man-in-the-Pen-tagon and the Chief of Staff's trouble-shooter within the ranks, the burly (6 ft. 190 lbs.), heavy-jawed infantry veteran will thus represent...
...industrial heartland of the nation. The state's 17 million inhabitants represent fully a third of the West German electorate, and exercise a political power that in U.S. terms would equal California's and New York's combined. Heavily Catholic, the region has traditionally given wide majorities to Erhard's Christian Democratic Union. Hence the surprise last week when, in the state's first election since 1962, Willy Brandt's Social Democrats grabbed 49.5% of the popular vote and 99 seats to the C.D.U.'s 86. The C.D.U.'s ally and coalition...
Kumpel Chorus. For one thing, the Socialists won wide sympathy with their proposed speakers' exchange with East Germany on the question of reunification. Perhaps more important was the record oversupply of 21 million tons of coal, which stands in ominous black mountains from Bottrop to Bochum. To the Ruhr, it brought the fear of mine closings, short shifts and layoffs. The big steel firms are running at a scant 80% of production capacity. Add to that the perennial German fear of inflation, and the fact that living costs rose 4.4% in the past year, and the stage...
...airy, wide-open feeling of the interior is achieved by a series of 12-ft-wide plywood baffles along the sides, slanted to let nature in while reflecting sound through the theater. The bankroll was put up largely by New York State ($960,000), the brothers Rockefeller ($1,300,000) and the Saratoga racing community...