Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clout. Though his report got wide attention, Magaziner felt that Brown was slow in carrying it out. As a result, he staged mass rallies to push his reforms, organized three-student teams to work on every faculty member and turned his gift of gab on the administration. As president of the student body (and class president for all four years), he had the clout to mobilize hundreds of disciples with a single telephone call, which set off a chain of calls across the campus. In May, the university finally approved the new curriculum for a two-year experimental period...
...fifth wedding, lay in state. Many were moved to tears when a young girl from The Bronx began to play Judy's records on a battery-powered phonograph. Some, of course, came only out of curiosity. Others were responding to a remembered image of the plucky, wide-eyed little girl in The Wizard of Oz who had said: "If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard. Be cause if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with...
...partners to accept "voluntary" quotas. U.S. action could involve the revoking of textile-tariff concessions that have been granted in the past, or Congress could legislate quotas. Either way, a worldwide trade war might result, provoking retaliation not only by Japan but also by many other nations against a wide range of U.S. goods...
TONIGHT we have placed a wide range of facts about the housing situation in Cambridge before you and I have touched on my feelings about progress we can make in a number of areas related to housing. Much of this has come from the work of the Task Force on the Housing Crisis which I called together in early April. A special committee of that Task Force is now at work developing a specific implementation plan for the 1500 units of various types of publicly subsidized housing now allocated to the City, and in planning for new applications for more...
Throughout the show the eye is ravished by a constant series of breathtakingly beautiful Renaissance costumes, designed by Jane Greenwood. For the men, the colors run largely to browns, with a healthy admixture of white and black. The women wear very wide farthingales, which are the sources of a good deal of comic business. And one must not overlook Thomas Skelton's helpful lighting...