Word: wide
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...least of the Heritage Foundation's appeal to President Reagan is that its analysts have mastered the scholarly equivalent of the famous memo style he requires of his own staff members: short, uncomplicated and easy to read. Except for occasional Government-wide surveys like last week's Mandate for Leadership II, Heritage writers are guided by the rule of thumb practiced by Edwin J. Feulner Jr., the foundation's president and cofounder. Says he: "If the Heritage study is thin enough to make it into a Congressman's briefcase, half the battle...
...office, even Dr. Frankenstein and Igor were more scientific. "Gentlemen," a coroner once declared when a head was found in a city sewer, "this is the work of a murderer." To quality as a deputy coroner, you had to possess the following: a letter from your ward boss, a wide-brimmed gray fedora, a diamond pinky ring, and a cigar. When somebody died of anything but natural causes, a deputy coroner rushed to the scene. They always rushed, because they were afraid the wagon men might grab a locket. Once there, it was the responsibility of the deputy coroner...
Lurie's London backdrop betrays Lurie's critical love. This is not a James novel with wealthy Americans darting about wide-eyed in full-dress infatuation. Lurie shows us the procession of the Druids on Parliament Hill but does not spare us their absurdity, the anachronistic spectacles under their ancient hoods, their clearly modern British faces. But neither can Lurie mask her love for Vinnie's adopted city, flaws...
Ross company is just one of countless businesses in a wide range of industries all over the United States who call themselves Harvard From New York to Los Angeles, Boston to Houston, phone books bulge with cleaners, car washes, retail stores, even restaurants which have--one way or another ended up with the same name as one of the most famous universities in the world...
...Breland's slender hope too. The first opponent served up to him (from more than a half foot below) was better than the best Cuban he ever fought. "He looked at me like 'Hey, I'm from Brooklyn too,' " Breland said, sorry to be so wide-eyed about it but never seeing things quite so clearly before. "Breland looked good to me," Dwight Williams countered, "and I ain't nobody's chump. I'm still going some place, because I done fought the best in the world." Hey, they all get their chance...