Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Turning from hand to hand at a crowded reception, the General pours out conversation--his lower chin ripples, his legs spread wide apart to support his heavy frame, and a broad smile sends the deep wrinkles in his face scattering under his white hair. The voice rises from a point near the bottom of his chest where the bands of medals end. "I'm one of those fellas," he says, "who always wanted to be a lawyer and never got to be. In my day bein' a lawyer meant bein' a politician--but I guess I'm pretty much...
...that day two years ago--not consciously, but necessarily, because so much has changed. Comparisons between Johnson and Kennedy are rare now, not because we forget, but because the pace of events of these years gives such comparisons a tinge of unreality. The gulf is already too wide for us to say with any security what Kennedy would have done, much less thought, about the issues that concern...
Morgan said that when he entered his room at 11:55 p.m. Saturday night the door was still locked, but the Plympton St. windows were wide open and a fire was burning in the fireplace. "It looked like someone had been enjoying himself," he said...
That brought the ball to Harvard's thirty. Runs by Jim Weigel and Groninger moved Yale to the Crimson 18, where their drive was halted. With fourth down and three, Dan Begel attempted a 35-yard field goal, which was wide to the left...
...night of the soul. For weeks, for months, he drifts alone and probably insane down a mighty river that is sometimes the Amazon and sometimes the River of Life. Then one day he looks into a forest pool and sees a face: "A face bare with privation but the wide eyes were clear, and behind the face the clouds of heaven rolled majestically across the world." A blaze of sunlight sparkles on the water. "He entered the sun's sparkle and drank. Mineral and cold as a prairie river, the water bathed his heart. He felt himself open like...