Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Time Is Coming." In the face of such wide and widening divergence, the President decided that it was time to lay it on the line to Congress and simultaneously put Hanoi on notice that "the string is running out." Rusk reviewed the futile peace probes of the past five weeks...
Surrounded by a high, spiked fence and a 20-ft.-wide defense perimeter bristling with punji stakes, the one-acre compound consists of five grass-and-straw huts, a camouflaged lookout tower, a well, a shaded hammock for the village chief. A dozen "Viet Cong" defenders-infantry troops who have completed their training and are awaiting assignment to Viet Nam-wear black pajamas and conical peasant hats. Underneath the village snakes a maze of tunnels that connect each hut to a passageway leading under the village wall. When the trainees attack, some villagers usually slip into the tunnels...
...wait. Moreover, he has fared well enough on the razor-edge majority. For one thing, it has helped him to keep his left wing in line. As things stand now, the far leftists must go along with his moderate line or bring down the government. But with a wide majority for Labor of 50 to 100 seats, the left-wingers could revolt at will on every niggling issue, not only embarrassing Wilson but also putting him in greater danger of a Tory upset than at present. Thus, in one sense at least, a slim lead for Labor is healthier than...
Once such extreme fashion could be worn, as one U.S. buyer put it, "only on top of an elephant in the Barnum & Bailey Circus." Today, with more informal living, chances are excellent that many a young thing this summer will flutter about in wide drapery harem pants, try slinging her hooded Arab cloak over her bead-necklace top and hip-hugging pants. And for those who expect to fall, or be thrown, into a pool, there is' an evening bathing suit with a top that is just a halter of beads...
...good look at the TV set. Among other things, they saw a mesomorph in cape and cowl expostulate: "My own parents were murdered by dastardly criminals" and "I'll stand at the bar-I shouldn't wish to attract attention," while Batman's sidekick, Robin, a wide-eyed adolescent, stood at the ready with such replies as "Gleeps!," "Holy barracuda!" and "Holy flypaper...