Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into this hotbed of the libido fall Tom and Nancy. Tom hates brown and green so much that he covers every inch of Colin's living room, including the windows, with white paint. Nancy, cloth-capped and wide-eyed, just in from the provinces, starts out looking for the YWCA. But, as she observes when Tom and Colin lift the antique bed on which she is sitting, "I've been picked up, haven...
Betsy's 90-mile-wide eye passed over New Orleans, nearly half of which is below sea level. Canal dikes burst, sending cascades 8 ft. to 14 ft. deep through the streets. Army and National Guard amphibious craft cruised about picking up trapped householders from roofs and attics. One man paddled to safety girdled by an inner tube. Telephone service and power distribution blacked out. Scores of boats, from big freighters to cabin cruisers, ran aground or broke up. As the floods receded, they left a soggy jumble of ruined cars, fallen trees and utility lines, splintered glass...
...hard to organize. When one union was contemplating organizing insurance company employees, the union paper struck a note of comic despair: "Can you imagine the national reaction to a strike of insurance salesmen?" Some labor leaders expect to develop new forms of cooperation with management, such as the industry-wide boards that already function in steel and coal...
From the first day of independence, Pakistan's foreign policy has been based on fear of India. Except for the Moslem religion, this fear is the only unifying force in the nation. Pakistan is, in fact, two countries separated by a 1,000-mile-wide corridor of intervening Indian territory. West Pakistan, an arid, sprawling land much like the American Southwest, is inhabited by 45 million tall, hardy, light-complexioned Pathans, Sindhis, and Punjabis, who dominate the government and the army. East Pakistan is small, waterlogged, and congested with a population of 55 million short, dark-complexioned Bengalis...
...success, Steven, now 57, was never very popular with the Chronicle's owners. They are the trustees of Houston Endowment Inc., a $400 million nonprofit foundation that was set up by the late Millionaire Jesse Jones and converts earnings from a wide range of interests into scholarships and support for the arts. Steven reversed the paper's conservative policies and put it squarely behind integration. The Chronicle helped integrate the Houston schools and more recently, the all-city symphony orchestra...