Word: wide
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Elvis Presley Boulevard, a wide strip of used car lots, fast food restaurants and gas stations, leads to Graceland. By noon the rising temperature is well into the 90s and ambulances are carrying away those who have succumbed to the heat while crowding in front of the ornate plantation-style house. A brick wall on the grounds has turned into a "Wall of Love," covered with scrawled messages from admirers. Some of the fans have patiently endured the three-hour wait every day for a week so they can again and again walk up the shaded driveway, past rows...
...shown that in this wide-open economy a hard-nosed scrapper can beat the odds. His first big boss warned him not to expect to rise too high in banking because grandsons of Lebanese immigrants can't make it big in that Wasp world. Abboud was not impressed, and several years ago he beat out three other candidates to become chairman of First Chicago Corp., parent of First National Bank of Chicago. He savors the perks: the chauffeured limo that picks him up in the exurbs at 6 a.m.; the ballroom-sized corner office decorated with Oriental artifacts...
...nearly twice the number who voted in 1963 in Pope Paul's election. With that increase has come an explosion of candidates. Observes Paulist Father Thomas Stransky, a former member of the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity and longtime Curial insider: "There is such a wide spread that it is impossible to say whose name will finally come...
...Paul's closest confrere among the Cardinals, a man whom the Pontiff most often chose for the concelebration of Mass, as a companion for trips abroad or to stand at his side for speeches from St. Peter's balcony. Ordained at 22, he has served in a wide range of jobs - including a harrowing tour as the first Italian navy chaplain to accompany a submarine crew into action in World War II. He earned his pastoral spurs - and the future Pope's lasting trust - as auxiliary bishop to then Archbishop Montini in Milan. Diplomatic assignments in Latin...
...film's most telling scene: one night he hoists a lad- der up the side of a sorority house and spies on the coeds through a window. In any other college movie, his efforts would not pay off, but here they do in spades. Belushi's wide eyes take in one gorgeous nude body after another as the girls engage in pillow fights and unmentionable other acts. Yet there is nothing sordid about his voyeurism; it seems almost pure. That is because the Lampoon people understand the darkest secret of an American college education: one of the noblest...