Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...L.B.J. has no "style"? Indeed he has, but it is a style either unrecognized or despised by a wide cross section of American liberals: that of the small-town Protestant worthy. Before jumping to the conclusion that therefore he is not big enough for the job. the scoffers should recall that Lincoln was called a "baboon" by Punch...
...same time, U.S. Steel reported a 16% gain in profits (to $236 million), Bethlehem a startling 44% rise (to $148 million). Even the nation's hard-pressed railroads had their best year in a decade with industry-wide profits of $725 million, an increase of 11% over...
...like Elvis Presley. Georgette jes' wants a home for her daughter, Margaret Rose. But all they do to achieve their small-town dreams is fidget on sunbaked street corners, wearing plain cotton. Or maybe they stare at each other, sort of hungry-like, creating pauses so long and wide a hundred head of cattle could amble right through them...
...last three Presidents of the U.S. have given the helicopter industry its biggest boost by frequently and publicly taxiing from place to place in their whirlybirds. Having been aviation's ugly duckling for 20 struggling years, the industry finally saw some faint hope that it would win the wide public acceptance it wants. The number of helicopters in commercial use - for everything from patrolling game reserves to lifting men to offshore oil rigs - has risen from 936 in 1960 to 1,767 in 1964. The nation's three major helicopter lines, serving New York, Chicago and Los Angeles...
Author Humphrey is a man of supple mind and ingenious fancy; he is also the unobtrusive master of a wide-eyed, self-deprecatory style that again and again sweet-talks the reader, step by reasonable step, right to the brink of the preposterous^and then tumbles him into laughter. He does it with a loving touch that leaves no bitter aftertaste: the Ordways come up smiling...