Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...carry. Though the National Gallery's director, J. Carter Brown, is accepting most of the credit for it, the main work of selection, cataloging and arrangement was carried out by its English curator, Gervase Jackson-Stops, architectural adviser to the National Trust in London. He did the job with wide knowledge and, in the matings of some objects, a dry wit. One could be fatigued by the result but never bored, for Jackson-Stops is a dab-hand at fitting potted histories around incompressible works of art. One is firmly led through the mutations of English taste, as early Elizabethan...
...laboriously explains how a widget is manufactured. Touring an aluminum smelter in the city of Portland, Diana could not stop giggling at the sight of Charles wearing a too small hard hat and protective goggles; with his Clark Gable ears, he looked rather like a Volkswagen with both doors wide open. A sheepish Charles turned to one man and said, "Does your wife laugh at you when...
...notion of a basketball player being too tall or a football player too massive is funny in itself. But the Washington Bullets' Manute Bol and the Chicago Bears' William Perry are straining the boundaries of humor and humanity. Perry has become known wide and far as "the refrigerator," and not because whenever he opens his mouth a light goes on. "I was big when I was little," he likes to say, 13 1/2 lbs. at his birth nearly 23 years ago in Aiken, S.C. He grew to almost 400 lbs., or "350 and rising," according to Clemson University's limited...
...want you to listen carefully," said Chief U.S. Negotiator Max Kampelman with a wide smile, "and I want you to listen with your constructive ear." Victor Karpov, his Soviet counterpart, smiled back, though somewhat less amiably. There was little likelihood of Karpov's attention wandering. He knew that Kampelman was about to unveil a sweeping new American proposal in response to the arms-control plan that the Soviets had tabled with much fanfare five weeks...
...weeks of silence. Then on Saturday morning in a deserted White House, Peter Roussel, another deputy press secretary, was suddenly aware somebody was standing at his door. It was the Washington TASS man, Alexander Shalnev. Could he come in and please close the door? a wide-eyed Shalnev asked. The Kremlin would accept the offer--well, sort of. Speakes & Co. wanted assurances the President's words would actually get to the Soviet people. The Soviets would only say that Izvestiya had "indicated an interest" in publishing the interview. Reagan said go ahead...