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Word: wide (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have fueled a raging fire in the graphite, which burns like coal when ignited, throwing a plume of volatile radioactive elements into the air. U.S. officials calculated that the particulates and gases surged nearly a mile high, where they were caught by prevailing winds and then blown over a wide swath to the northwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deadly Meltdown | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...Franklin D. Raines '71 and Parker G. Montgomery '49, hold views similar to those of three candidates on a pro-divestment slate who gained nomination for the alumni-wide election by petition...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: 2 More for Overseer Support Divestment | 5/9/1986 | See Source »

...course, all was not happy in Mudville. Whenever I placed a roll in its holder--after debating for hours one end which way to hang it to prevent disease--I found that the toilet paper was too wide for its holder, or, more aptly named, its squeezer...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: The T.P. Squeeze | 5/7/1986 | See Source »

Harvard Real Estate (HRE) has filed with the Cambridge Rent Control Board to raise the rents on 169 apartments in Harvard Square one year after the board cut those rents deeply in a city-wide assessment of landlords' costs...

Author: By David S. Graham, | Title: Harvard Real Estate to Appeal Cuts By Cambridge Rent Control Board | 4/30/1986 | See Source »

Former National Security Advisor Robert C. McFarlane told a Kennedy School audience Monday night that military action is only one of "dozens of measures" the United States should employ in an effective strategy to combat world-wide terrorism...

Author: By Kenneth A. Gerber, | Title: McFarlane Backs Libya Action | 4/30/1986 | See Source »

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