Word: wide
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When a student committed suicide at Brandeis this spring, the entire university had a day of mourning: professors had moments of silence before the beginning of class and a university-wide memorial service was held...
...mistaken in believing that in order to respect the privacy of people, it is not "appropriate for the college to note the occasion of the death" in a more public, college-wide way. The opportunity as a community to mourn the departed can help us to realize how much our lives combine. With this realization we have a better chance, both individually and as a group, to seek to improve the lives of those who remain...
Indeed, Hart will probably finish the spring having won most of the primaries and perhaps even a majority of the cumulative popular vote. Yet Mondale still has a wide lead in total delegates (1,564 to 941, as of last Saturday) because of his victories in the big industrial states, his support from the Democratic Establishment and the arcane provisions of delegate-selection rules that his vanguard helped draft two years ago. Even if Hart should sweep the five remaining primaries on June 5, including those in California (306 delegates at stake) and New Jersey (107), his delegate total would...
...disability benefits, he went without electricity and plumbing for four years. But last month Costello's lucky numbers were drawn in the Massachusetts Megabucks lottery. His prize: more than $2 million in annual installments of $113,000 for 20 years. Costello's first purchases were two "double-wide" mobile homes (cost: $30,000 each furnished), one to replace the Maine shack and the other to be used as a vacation trailer in Leesburg, Fla. For his "lady friend," he bought a new Buick...
DIED. Irwin Shaw, 71, popular, prolific American writer whose lean, straightforward prose style and masterly sense of storytelling won wide audiences for such novels as The Young Lions (1948) and Rich Man, Poor Man (1970), but who will be remembered critically for his short stories of the 1930s and '40s; of a heart attack; in Davos, Switzerland. Born in Brooklyn, Shaw first won acclaim for his antiwar play Bury the Dead in 1936. He attracted a wide following with his short stories in The New Yorker, particularly his exquisite evocation of a young man's obsession, The Girls...