Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sent Grant off left-tackle and the speedy halfback gained only a yard. Then McCluskey pitched out to Grant; the Crimson's right halfback moved outside left end, got key blocks from McCluskey and Ulcickas, and dived into the corner of the end zone. Maury Dullea's kick was wide and it was Harvard 6, Yale...
...lead away, marching 71 yards as Ed McCarthy's passing ripped Harvard's defense apart. McCarthy started by throwing to Bill Henderson for a 24-yard gain to the Harvard 40. Two running plays later, McCarthy went to the air again and found his split end, Bunky Carter, wide open at the Harvard...
Last week Jones went on trial in Celina, Tenn. (pop. 1,228). Outside the tiny Clay County courthouse, where Judge Cordell Hull once sat, a bearded evangelist stood on the lawn shouting for sinners to repent. Inside, sweating from the heat of two potbellied stoves, a crowd of wide-eyed youngsters and tobacco-chewing old men listened intently as the D.A. thundered: "When you hit him, did he scream?" Said Jones: "I guess he did, but I wouldn't know because I didn...
...Joseph T. Alves, head of Boston's Roman Catholic Family Counseling, Inc. A social psychologist, Father Alves is directing a project for training "social volunteers" to help the lonely aged adjust to modern society's pressures and to comfort those who are incurably ill. There is wide public misunderstanding, said Father Alves, of the full purpose of the Roman Catholic "sacrament of the sick." Long called "extreme unction," it is still too generally regarded as simply the last anointing before death. But in modern theology a broader and more ancient purpose has been re-emphasized. The sacrament...
...used as a hand telescope" weighs only 51 lbs., including its 6-volt batteries. Larger, 20-lb. scopes with a wider field of view are meant for use with recoilless rifles or other crew-handled weapons. The biggest scopes weigh 40 lbs. and sit fatly on tripods. Through their wide-angle lenses, a commander can keep track of the stumbling confusion of a night battle. He can see his own forces along with the enemy's, and hopefully send enlightened orders that will result in a starlit victory...