Word: wide
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...graceful moves on the football field leave the opposition flat-footed. Now Chicago Bear Willie Gault has pirouetted from the end zone to the ballet | world. Trading cleats and pads for leotards and slippers, the fleet wide receiver leaped to new heights last week with a troupe of inner-city youths and the Chicago City Ballet in a benefit for the Better Boys Foundation. Gault, 26, put in five practice sessions (but no chalk talk) for his number to the music of Webern. He was partnered by Ballerina Maria Terezia Balogh, whom he lifted with the greatest of ease before...
...taken from a $300 million appropriation earmarked for four Central American countries. Again, Dole led a Republican countercharge, quashing the proposal by a 57-to-41 vote. But on Friday, the Senate had a change of heart. This time legislators crafted a measure that draws $200 million from a wide range of foreign aid accounts to minimize the impact on individual programs. The new package sailed through the Senate by a vote...
...which knocked off Princeton by a 39-8 count in its only other Ivy action to this point, is led by senior quarterback Marty Stallone (42-for-74, 481 yards, five touchdowns, four interceptions). His favorite target is Jeff Johnson out of the backfield, while wide receivers Shaun Hawkins and Chris Hahn pose deep threats...
Many observers feel that the Bruins are the only serious obstacle the Quakers must overcome for their title. But it won't be easy. Brown is led by Pennsylvania-born quarterback Mark Donovan who has connected on five scoring passes to wide receiver Dave Fielding alone...
...There is an extraordinary gap between therhetoric and the reality of American highereducation," Bennett asserts. "The gap is so wide,in fact, that we face the very realpossibility...of an erosion of public support forthe enterprise...