Word: widens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peabody Square in front of the Littauer Center for Public Administration. In return for the closed section of Kirkland St.--from Oxford St. to Kosciuszko Sq.--the University has offered slightly more than 11,000 sq. ft. of ground. The land, adjacent to existing roadways, would be used to widen Quincy St. next to Memorial Hall and Cambridge St. in front of Littauer...
Double Denouncing. The three-day gun fight at Ambelikou last week dramatized a new Greek Cypriot tactic. It began when the Turkish Cypriot villagers used a bulldozer to widen a rude hill path leading to Lefka, which is also Turkish-controlled. Any attempt to improve road communications or to move villagers to larger Turkish towns is met with force. The Makarios government argues that a concentration of the island's minority would play into Turkey's hands by giving Ankara a beachhead for invasion. The Turks protest that the Greeks want to keep Turkish Cypriots well scattered...
...other major U.S. museum. Over the Washington's Birthday weekend, the Met counted a record of 59,099 admissions during Sunday's four-hour visiting period. It was a record for only a fortnight; two weeks later, more than 62,000 came. The Met even plans to widen its front steps...
...professional man of the world. Chairman of the great Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he is widely traveled, points with vast pride to the Oxford degree that he won as a Rhodes scholar, is father of the scholarship plan that bears his name and has enabled 24,000 Americans to widen their horizons in studies abroad...
First estimate of the temperature of the water in which Mitchell was continually bathed was 31 degrees. Rescue workers said it would probably take them two days to widen the chasm so the Mitchell's body can be removed...