Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when he spoke about the space program his eyes looked lit and positively excited. The camera inched a little closer to his face, and he seemed for a moment to stop reading the cue cards. Hinting at the secrecy of the Soviet space program, he was wide-eyed, ruddy-cheeked, virtually light-hearted. He had the cocky, cagey look of a reverend who has suddenly resurrected humor from a grim funeral party, the irreproachable charm of a boy who has insouciantly wiped his nose on his mother's burial shroud...
...three students, all of whom are members of the exclusive, all-male D.U. Final Club, were arrested at Wellesley'sTower Court dormitory during the school'scampus-wide winter formal. They were allegedlyinvolved in a scuffle in which they struckWellesley campus police officers...
...Also in July, after years of prodding and pressure from a variety of organizations, the Harvard Corporation reversed its position on the need for a sweeping University-wide anti-discrimination policy...
...first check all your personal belongings, including jewlery, scarves, gloves and everything in your pockets, into a locker in Concord's lobby. Then you walk into the "trap," where a wide metal door rolls open and shuts again with a loud, ominous clang. You take off your jacket and shoes and give them to a guard to inspect. After walking through a metal detector, you are patted down by the guard--who even checks your mouth. Then you put your shoes back on and wait for a steel-barred door to wheel open...
...bulk of the new customers are youths in their early teens, according to Forsyth. "We're selling a lot of boards to first-time skateboarders," he says, describing them as 12 to 15 year old boys who want "wide brightly colored boards with gusty graphics...