Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet sentry suddenly appeared from a wooded patch about 100 yards from the men. "Watch out!" shouted Schatz. "Come back!" Without warning, American officials charge, the sentry fired three quick rounds from his AK-47 assault rifle. One of them whistled by Schatz's ear, a second went wide, and the third tore through Nicholson's chest as he turned. "I've been shot, Jess," the major gasped. Schatz grabbed a first-aid box and started running toward him but was forced back into the car by Soviet soldiers. It was another hour before a Soviet medic examined Nicholson...
...Caribbean island. The refinery has provided Aruba with more than half its annual income for better than two generations. Writes the Curacao-based Antillen Review: "The chilling truth, that a total economic collapse might well be the country's fate within two years, has at last dawned upon a wide spectrum of the nation's decision makers...
...Massachusetts, one of the most liberal members of the Senate, was a leading sponsor of the most sweeping federal anticrime measure in the past 16 years. Enacted last October, the revision of the criminal code permits pretrial detention of "dangerous" defendants, increases penalties for major drug offenses and eliminates wide disparities in sentences for people who commit similar crimes. Harvard Professor of Government James Q. Wilson's celebrated reference to New York could be applied nationally when it comes to crime: "There are no more liberals . . . They've all been mugged...
...glamorizing myth. Instead, he explores at length the Occidental fascination with "the Hindu soul... something like a separate sex." Schwab's retrospective vision is itself a richly dense landscape with illuminating details such as Shelley's "pantheism" and Leibnitz's "Oriental lobe." Schwab invokes, with impressive authority, a wide ranging cast of intellectual and artistic figures from Chateaubriand and Hugo to Herder and Schopenhauer, in an imaginative attempt to reconstruct the vivid mood of self-awakening...
Baldauf, the Crimson's leadoff batter, reached second when the Terrier third baseman threw the ball wide of first. Mary MacKinnon grounded out to short, but B.U. first baseman Kerri Smith attempted to make a snap throw to third to catch an advancing Baldauf--and threw the ball away, allowing the run to score...