Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gray and chilly morning last week, a Royal Air Force Lockheed L-1011 TriStar became the first wide-bodied passenger jet to land on the Falkland Islands, marking the start of regular air service from London. Then Britain's Prince Andrew officially opened the islands' still unfinished Mount Pleasant airport. Almost half the Falklands' 1,850 residents jostled for a view of the royal occasion; there was even a 10-ft.-long commemorative cake. But some of the reactions to the $345 million airport were not as sweet as the cake...
...Flyers don't want things to become wide open in the finals. They will prosper only if they can negate the Oilers' scoring edge with a defensive blanket...
When confronted with that question, I wish Jesse Owens were alive to answer it. Most American schoolkids, and anyone who has seen at least five episodes of ABC's Wide World of Sports, know about Owens. He was the Black athlete who participated in the 1936 Olympics--held in, of all places, Berlin. And not just any old Berlin, but a Berlin awash in swastikas. A Berlin presided over by a man with a funny mustache who spouted ludicrous theories about the superiority of the Aryan race and the inferiority of most others, including, of course, the Black race...
...first wave of CDs featured orchestral blockbusters to show off the digital sound's wide dynamic range. The true test of recording technology, however, is the piano. Wow, flutter and tape hiss--ills that LPs are heir to --are all magnified in piano music, but they are drastically reduced, if not entirely eliminated, with CDs. And while flat-earthers may still decry what they hear as a clinical, metallic quality in digital CD recordings, such reservations will disappear as recording engineers adapt their techniques to the demands of the new medium. The best of the current CD piano releases...
...fire, then fled, scattering handbills along the way. When firemen arrived on the scene a few minutes later, the van exploded, killing two of the fire fighters. The blast also injured twelve passersby. Belgian Justice Minister Jean Gol called the incident part of a concerted, Continent-wide terrorist campaign. Four other bombs also went off last week in Cologne and Dusseldorf, West Germany, intended to protest the economic summit of the major industrialized nations...