Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...date, the French have conducted their tests in the Algerian Sahara, but under the Evian agreements they must get out by mid-1967. The new site will be a 250,000-acre, twelve-mile-wide strip along the French Guiana coast to be rilled out with rows of launch cranes, quarters for technicians and a master command post. The French government has allotted an initial $60 million, and French agents are shopping in French-speaking Caribbean islands for 5,000 workers. Construction on what has already been nicknamed Cape de Gaulle is to start late next year, and France...
...early in the third quarter, 79,544 fans in Cleveland's Municipal Stadium saw Lou ("The Toe") Groza boot a 43-yd. field goal, and suddenly the floodgates opened. Swinging wide to the left, Fullback Brown took a pitchout, cut back, and churned 46 yds. to the Baltimore 18. (Murmured one spectator: "Put a cape on him, and he's Superman.") Quarterback Ryan was a little nervous about calling the next play-a tricky "hook-post" pass to Flanker Gary Collins behind the goal posts. On the same play five times this season he had bounced the ball...
This year the freshman quintet is playing a wide-open, running game. They have a lot of speed and shooting ability, as shown by their two 100-plus scorings this season. The team works a man-to-man defense...
Great Mother with Navel. Life in Çatal Hiiyiik centered around religious ceremonials. The largest rooms in the city were windowless shrines furnished with a wide assortment of idols and symbols. The center of attraction was usually a chunky goddess modeled of clay in a spread-legged attitude that Dr. Mellaart calls the "giving birth" position. She is, he thinks, an early representative of the Great Mother cult that dominated the Mediterranean world for many thousand years...
...vehicle with a science-fiction name and capabilities: the Unimog. This ungainly, versatile product is one of Daimler's biggest sellers; it can be used to cut roses, bore shafts, or climb 70° slopes, is the transportation for the first motorized west-to-east expedition across the wide part of Africa, now underway. To sell its buses, which range from a ten-passenger miniature to a 180-passenger monster, Daimler has developed a "people-to-people" campaign aimed at developing nations. It has sold 1,350 buses to Teheran for its public-transportation system, wishes that it could...