Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, the main group chose the Susitna. On the gray afternoon of April 29, they ignored the warnings of townspeople in Talkeetna that the spring breakup was imminent, and began to cross the mile-wide river. They pushed and pulled their overloaded house trailers across. At times the water above the ice reached their knees. But by late afternoon they had hauled their trailers ashore on the west bank...
Leading 8-0, Aloian--who hadn't suited up in four years--attempted the extra point, but his kick was wide to the left...
Martone uses a wide and various last of narrators in his stories, yet only one voice speaks throughout the book: the voice of the accomplice, self-conscious and self-effacing. Iypically, the accomplice relates a story which concerns a well-known name-Alfred Kinsey, John Dillinger and others. Yet despite the famous names. Martone makes it clear that the stories significance rests not in the identify of the relevant celebrity but rather in the fact of the name itself; the name which motivates the narrator to reveal. Shyly and obliquely, his own story. We, the readers, are asked...
...other business, the committee appointed a task force to examine student-faculty contact, including the results of its college-wide survey of student and faculty opinions, and it approved the creation of eight new student groups...
...Crimson came out yesterday with rifles cocked. The first shot of the game, about one minute into the contest, was just wide, and it didn't take long at all for the Crimson to hit the target...