Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Naming the Dates. As they dug deeper into the warped world of Frank Gonzales, investigators discovered that he had been bent on suicide and had broadcast the fact far and wide. "Mr. Gonzales had advised both friends and relatives that he would die on either Wednesday, the 6th of May, or Thursday, the 7th of May," said the CAB report. "He referred to his impending death on a daily basis throughout the week preceding the accident...
During the campaign the President handed out blank checks to dozens of disparate groups, and cashing them will require a miracle of political statesmanship. Johnson promised a Government "both thrifty and progressive"; it will have to be both if he is to balance his budget and still put across wide-ranging medicare, education and anti- poverty programs. Big steel is pressing for higher prices; Lyndon's resistance could turn some businessmen against him. Ford's 130,000 United Auto Workers Union members threatened to strike by week's end; Johnson's newly won prestige will...
...Wide Swath. There was a time not too long ago when President John Kennedy, relaxing with friends in the oval office, would grin innocently and murmur, "Say, whatever became of Lyndon Johnson?" That crack always got a good laugh, for it was a succinct expression of the oblivion into which Johnson had fallen as Vice President...
...Jack Kennedy's domestic program to fruition with great skill. The tax cut, the civil rights bill and the federal pay raise-all were products of the resoluteness with which Johnson as sumed his unaccustomed leadership. That leadership paid him a dividend: the respect and confidence of a wide swath of the U.S. business community, which recognized in Johnson a strong strain of prudence in economic affairs. From these successes-from out of the shadow of Jack Kennedy-emerged still a different, a bolder man, whose aim it was to imprint the Johnson character on the one year remaining...
...Penn attack, choked for most of the game, managed one spurt in the third period when Richard Hannum passed 38 yards to end James Carpenter at the Harvard 10. But Hannum could take his team no farther, and Frank Capobianco's 22-yard field goal try was wide...