Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...More than 350 doctors, 1,000 nurses and 500 medical students were there to treat the people who came wandering in, suffering from the poisonous gas. All 750 beds were occupied, and the grounds looked like a vast, sad encampment, marked by everlasting misery and agony, spread far and wide...
Muslims were also buried in groups. Rescue workers dug graves six feet long and 15 feet wide, each holding eleven bodies. When there was no burial ground left, old tombs were opened and 100-year-old bones were displaced to make room for the victims. Even here the packs of dogs roamed about; if they found a grave that was not deep enough, they would haul out bodies and devour them. "I thought I had seen everything," said Subedar A.B. Bhosale, a soldier in the Indian army, "but this is worse than...
Akalaitis last night defended the right of directors to stray from absolutely faithful performances of the text. "The most boring production of Beckett was directed by Beckett," she said in a wide ranging impromptu discussion...
...some cases, is the weak support by Harvard students of the Harvard Radcliffe Amnesty International (HRAI). Though the group is essentially apolitical and only attempts to prevent torture, political imprisonment, and other abuses which violate the United Nation's code, it has received only lukewarm support in its campus wide efforts for letter-writing campaigns. Last year, in attempting to secure the release of three political prisoners, HRAI initiated a campaign to send postcards signed by Harvard students calling for the leaders of the three countries involved to take action. Though they tabled at every house and at the Freshman...
...think there should be more room for wide-open comments," says Professor William H. Bossert. "They're the most helpful. They imply things the statistics can't show, how well informed the student is. If the question simply says rate from 1 to 10, you don't know how, informed they were, whether came to lecture only once." Every year, Bossert says, he has changed something in his courses because of something written by students...