Word: wide
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turned toward me when I came in and moved wide as his smile toward me and sent my teeth spinning through lamplight. It seemed an obvious extension of my beef with Peavey. But I asked him why he had hit the dog. This only reminded him and the grin became one of discovery. He headed for the dog and I headed for the tipped-over lamp. I picked up a piece of milk glass about the time he got to the dog and hit him in the side of the face with...
...this promotion has been unethical and immoral. It helps persuade mothers to do something that may be harmful to their infants and may even be lethal. Large sums of money have been spent on promotion to the public and to physicians. Many different tactics have been utilized, including the wide use of mass media, the issuing of free samples to new mothers to get them hooked onto formula feeding, the employment of nurses (so called "milk nurses") to persuade mothers to bottle feed, and what must be regarded as "pay offs" to influential physicians...
...nominees, including Polish Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, Finnish President Urho Kekkonen, and the beleaguered committee of Soviet dissidents who have monitored the 1975 Helsinki human rights accords. The selection committee, chosen - at Nobel's behest - by the Norwegian parliament, cloaks its deliberations in se crecy but draws on a wide range of sources for nominees. Among those consulted: representatives of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, officials of various governments, scholars and previous Peace Prize laureates. Sadat, says Nobel Institute Director Jacob Sverdrup, received "between ten and 20" nominations (including one from 1973 Laureate Henry Kissinger); Begin received "many, but fewer...
Teng was brutally frank about his country's backwardness. "If you have an ugly face, it is no use pretending you are handsome," he remarked at a press conference for Japanese journalists, his own face cracking into a wide smile. China's target date for modernization is the year 2000, he said, conceding that the goal would be hard to meet. Crucial to China's development will be the $20 billion trade agreement that Peking has already made with Tokyo. Even that arrangement, he declared, "must be doubled and redoubled...
...history of Western art. It had no real parallel among American painters: one needs to go to Matisse or Bonnard to find anything like its expressive scope and patient single-mindedness. Then came the forays into an increasing darkness, the mute theatricality of his penultimate paintings, the wide blackish-plum surfaces that scarcely "breathe" at all, and the dull, fiddling solipsism of the last works...