Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group of young Brazilian artists will begin a four-day lecture series here Sunday, at 8 p.m., in Boylston Auditorium with a talk on Brazilian painting. The nation-wide tour is sponsored by the Brazilian Embassy...
Cashdollar or another receiver would invariably be wide open. Landeck rarely tried long bombs against the Crimson's fine safetymen, Dave Poe and John Dockery, but was content to gain ten yards at a crack. The strategy was devastatingly successful...
...fact, attracted far more than the banks. Dozens of new credit-card plans, ranging from neighborhood to countrywide, are popping up across the U.S. California's Transamerica Credit Corp. issues cards for individual shopping centers that enable the shopper to gas up her car, buy in a wide variety of shops, eat lunch and have her hair done. Los Angeles' Ail-American Acceptance Corp. has come out with a complete card for the automobile owner, who can use credit for repairs, new parts and the purchase of seat covers or tires. Universal Western Corp., a new Colorado company...
...Netherlands and Luxembourg-agreed substantially on a complicated method of financing agricultural subsidies inside the Common Market, the problem that led to the French walkout. They also dropped some proposals that De Gaulle opposes, such as one to give more power over farm-subsidy money to a Europe-wide Parliament and to the EEC executive commission. As bait for the French, the five offered to hold one ministerial meeting without the commission's Eurocrats, whom De Gaulle dislikes because their supranational leanings conflict with his dream of French hegemony over Europe...
...when her first story was published, the critics have solemnly compared her to Chekhov, Turgenev, George Eliot; and since 1962, when Ship of Fools became an international bestseller, the book-club brigade has revered the white-haired lady from Texas as the Grandma Moses of literature. Both judgments are wide of the mark...