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Word: wide (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Freudenberger designed his own set and lighting. By opening the supposedly cluttered, cooped room into a wide, multiwalled affair, he made on deviation from Pinter's detailed textual description of the room. Since most of the business hovered near the walls, the actors had to make some agonizingly awkward walks across an eternity of space at crucial moments...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: The Caretaker | 3/23/1966 | See Source »

According to Alan Evans '69, another of the founders of CLEAN, the project grew out of informal discussions among members of a freshman seminar on "Problem Solving." The seminar, Evans said yesterday, "has been working on a wide variety of problems that don't really relate to anything in particular...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Open War on Garbage | 3/22/1966 | See Source »

...zealous Paukerite teacher for "poisonous" books from the perennially locked school library. "They frisked our pockets and passed their hands over our bodies," wrote Popescu, "and since this didn't seem to satisfy them, they ordered us to take off our clothes. I opened my mouth wide and said 'Aaaaaaaah,' just to show I had no books inside." Though Red bluenoses scored the book as "decadent, trivial and pornographic," Popescu seems safe from chastisement: the party paper Scinteia (Spark) endorsed him as "a talented author, justly praised by both readers and critics." The regime has no praise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Europe: The Third Communism | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

Lyndon Johnson loves to escape the White House for his native Texas-where the prairies are wide, the sun warm and the livestock friendly. The White House press corps does not share the President's enthusiasm. Reporters look with loathing on extended Texas trips that take them away from Washington politics and parties and deposit them in the Driskill Hotel in Austin, some 60 miles from the L.B.J. ranch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporters: Good Times in Texas | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

...school was a prodigious 20 miles long by three miles wide. Some estimates place the West Coast hake population as high as 6 billion, which is quite a rake of hake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fishing: Raising Hake | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

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