Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fall of 1952, Harvard's name had become almost synonymous with all that was evil in education. During the Presidential campaign, Senator McCarthy twice made nation-wide speeches (the last on election eve in which he castigated Harvard Faculty members who supported Stevenson, particularly Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., '38, then associate professor of History, and Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. After the Eisenhower landslide, former Communist Granville Hicks, in testimony before the HUAC, gave an eyewitness' evidence that a cell of the Communist Party had indeed flourished at Harvard during the thirties. And within a week, Committee...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 pm.) The Grand Prix of Monaco from Monte Carlo, and the Tandem Event of the International Surfing Championships from Makaha Beach, Hawaii...
...roads are lined with their rusting skeletons. Birds in the surrounding bush fall silent when they pass, and drivers of lesser vehicles pull over to the side in terror. In all of West Africa there is no more frightening sight than a herd of wide-open mammy wagons, stuffed to the rafters with merchants, housewives, babies, calabashes and live chickens, careening toward the next town at full stampede...
...flat" racers, and even then there are dozens of ways for the best horse to lose. He can get caught in a "blind switch"-boxed in by opponents' sulkies. He may be startled by the flick of the whip into "breaking"-going off stride. He can be "hung" wide on the turns and lose too much ground to make up. Or he may simply draw an impossible post position-far on the outside, or in the second...
...gain. Novak's Moll uses her ill-gotten gains for her lover, and too soon comes to too good an end as a conventional romantic heroine. Appropriately, in Moll's real-life postscript, Actress Novak and Leading Man Johnson became husband and wife, which makes their wide-screen hanky-panky seem unimpeachably legitimate...