Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from this shaft of light, it becomes invisible in the darkness. There is a sharp demarcation between light and darkness in space. Peering down through the earth's milky cloud veil, he will recognize continents and oceans, even make out objects one-sixth of a mile long or wide [e.g., the Pentagon...
...Where's that Wide Wide World?" cried members of the Detroit contingent. "Where's Dave Garroway? He told us he was going to be here." Television's Garroway did not show, but NBC's Martin Agronsky was there, stage managing United Auto Workers' President Walter Reuther on to the footprints marked for him in chalk pn the platform, marshaling a crowd behind Reuther, while a producer with a megaphone exhorted everyone to wave the freshly printed PUT AMERICA BACK TO WORK signs for the camera...
...Macmillan hastily handed down an order forbidding British officials to reply to Adenauer. But the Tory Daily Telegraph, under no such restraint, counterattacked with an editorial called "Are We Beastly to the Germans?" Growled the Telegraph: "In suggesting the existence of an anti-German conspiracy, Dr. Adenauer was very wide of the mark. No conspiracy is needed, since anti-German feeling exists without being artificially inspired...
...Indirect taxes were slashed on a wide range of items. Most spectacular was a cut of about 2$ on a pint of beer, which, observed Amory, is "a fitting celebration perhaps of the achievements of an exhausting decade." Purchase tax on cars, TV sets and cosmetics is to fall from 60% to 50% ; on washing machines, refrigerators and vacuum cleaners it drops from...
...part of a nation wide Civil Defense test, an evacuation signal, continuous and lasting for three minutes, will be sounded tomorrow at approximately 11:30 a.m. It will be followed by a broken "off and on" take cover signal at 1:30 p.m. The Cambridge Civil Defense Agency emphasized that no public participation is required...