Word: wide
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...combines of Jessie Small's command look like green and yellow robots roaming through the wheat. When they start rolling down the length of a 60-acre section, it seems as if they will just keep right on going. Never stopping. Never turning aside. A 24-ft.-wide reel spins languidly in front of each combine, like a big lawnmower in slow motion, nudging the pale stalks of wheat gently into the path of unseen cutting blades...
Equipment prices have soared. Jessie's $50,000 machines cost only $17,000 in 1971. Next year he plans to trade in three or four of his old combines on several new John Deeres with 30-ft.-wide cutting heads. Price tag: $60,000 each. The Smalls' present inventory of equipment is worth better than half a million dollars: seven combines, six $20,000 trucks for hauling the cut grain to the elevators, three service pickups loaded down with about $20,000 worth of spare parts (the Smalls do all their own repair work), three house trailers...
...that in the new Viet Nam the sights were not what they used to be. "Hanoi is now a faded dowager of a city," cabled TIME Hong Kong Correspondent Richard Bernstein, who accompanied the Congressmen on their tour. "The old elegance and grace are still there in the wide, tree-lined boulevards and the colonial-era buildings, but the place is badly in need of some paint, some renewal, some energy. The city is calm, quiet and green, but also poor, drab and dull. Whatever improvement in living standard there has been, if any, has not been dramatic. At night...
...Since 1969, when the Harvard Undergraduate Council liquidated itself, until last spring, student government at Harvard consisted of a wide variety of student-faculty committees. Their official powers were rather dubious, and their actual influence negligible. Student apathy was par for the course and there was no effective forum where student opinion could be gauged and acted upon. The administration assumed a paternalistic role in most affiars, denying students any significant say in the governance of the University...
...fanatic fan is one such example. A wide variety of students makes up this classification, but a particularly zesty sample can be found in section 38 of Harvard Stadium on Saturday afternoons, chanting such creative slogans as "Intercept, contracept, stop that ball!" and, "Move to the left, move to the right, stand up, sit down, on my face...