Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lived with them in their plush town house at 22 Avenue de Messine, traveled with them to their luxurious beach home at St.-Tropez. A skilled wrestler, he was equally quick with his fists; these talents were sometimes useful to Alain, who had picked up a wide underworld acquaintance of pals during his earlier days as a young street brawler, a rifleman in Indo-China and a merchant sailor. For Stevan, it was an amusing existence, but it came to an abrupt end last fall. In early October, a ragpicker found his sackcloth-swathed corpse in a garbage dump...
...register to vote, pay taxes, buy licenses and be assigned to jury duty. Those who expected to find the building's interior gloomy and intimidating have been surprised by its airy openness. It is bathed in natural light, which pours down a central courtyard and through wide light shafts rising the full height of the nine-story building. It is extraordinarily accessible, with a subway station nearby and even has a concourse running through its ground floor. "It is the nexus of a lot of pedestrian routes in the city," says Architect Noel McKinnell, whose firm, Kallmann, Mc-Kinnell...
...battle. "Our system is not a sport like boxing," the authors write. "It is more like a cooperative skill, such as dancing." But they warn that "with acquaintances, clients or 'dates,' a bad fight can be final." And although the technique is rooted in the footnotes of wide scholarship, Bach himself admits that some responsible critics worry that the method is too superficial and only skims the surface of deeper problems...
Singer's wide-ranging theories and proposals have been conceived and assembled during an unusually varied career. The 44-year-old bachelor has taught physics at Princeton, designed mines for the Navy and conducted upper-atmosphere research at Johns Hopkins. He has been a scientific liaison officer in the U.S. embassy in London, a professor of physics at the University of Maryland and a researcher in planetary atmospheres at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. He served as director of the National Weather Satellite Center of the U.S. Weather Bureau, and before taking his present post...
...passenger's dream as well. Gone is the claustrophobic feeling of riding in a cigar tube. The plane's fuselage is 231 feet long and as tall as a two-story building; the interior cabin is almost twice as wide as that of the Boeing 707 (see diagram). Each airline will be free to deck out the passenger cabin as it pleases. In most versions, seats will be 10% wider than those in the current jets. In economy class, there will be rows of nine seats separated by two aisles to form a two-four-three seating pattern...