Word: wide
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...area will be demilitarized; Egypt can station only a single division on the peninsula and only within 31 miles of the Suez Canal and Gulf of Suez. The U.N. will station troops along the Gulf of Aqaba and the eastern border of the Sinai. Within a nearly two-mile-wide strip on the other side of the line, Israeli forces will be limited to four battalions. The two airfields that Israel built in the Sinai will be restricted to Egyptian civilian...
Today the doors are wide open. The very teachers and scholars who were forced to make themselves invisible are revered. There is a great demand for classical ballet and a fresh, unsatisfied curiosity about modern dance, particularly the work of Martha Graham. But most of the boom is in music. Last year there were 6,000 applications for 150 places at the Shanghai Conservatory. Says Tang Xuchen, 72, deputy director of the conservatory: "There is something that foreigners do not understand. Children were taught in secret, and anyway, the more you suppress a people, the stronger they become." Tang would...
...thinned by the expenditure of so much energy towards pure scariness. Carpenter flirts, here as in Assault, with some vaguely metaphysical notions about fate and death and evil, but you get the sense that he isn't really serious about it, and is merely doodling in the exceptionally wide margins of his plots...
...decrepitude of the crew he runs with, but he wants to run a little longer; he never comes to the realization the protagonist of North Dallas Forty did, namely, that there comes a time to put away childish things Mabry Jenkins is alienated from his work place, but nailing wide receivers is the only thing he knows. Or, it seems, cares to learn...
...match this fall, may facecompetition for the number one spot from sophomore Martha Roberts, who led the Crimson last year. At number three, sophomore Meg Meyer returns; and freshman Abby Meiselman, last year's number seven junior in Florida, probably will play in the fourth position. Felske has a wide variety of options to fill the last singles space and the doubles slots. Junior captain Katie Ditzler, freshman Kristen Mertz, sophomore Leslie Miller, senior Sally Roberts and sophomore Libby Pierpont all are in the running...