Word: widens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earthquakes. "I don't plan any major changes in the character of the paper," he told TIME. "Newspapers must live for the particular community they serve. I publish the Sun in London for London. I would never do something like that in New York. We plan to widen and strengthen the Post, and to add to the editorial staff. But our first job is to make the paper viable. I wouldn't be buying the Post if I didn't think I could...
Sunday's game was characterized by generally sloppy playing interspersed with occasional bursts of precision execution. Harvard grabbed the lead early in the game and held on until the closing minutes, but could never widen its advantage by more than five goals. The difference in the end proved to be Tufts' superiority in numbers, with waves of fresh students wearing down the Harvard players' stamina...
...Novelist James T. Farrell, 72, has contributed a moving story about the 1947 fire that destroyed much of his work-in-progress. Brooklyn Fire Fighter Michael Kearney rates fire helmets. Other stories focus on fire technology, fire medicine and firehouse cookery. Smith and his staff of ten plan to widen Firehouse's appeal with family features on travel and sports. But fire fighting will remain the heart of the magazine. Says Smith: "The writing has gotta be laconic, emotional, exciting. I like to see fire fighters in every story and know what they feel and think." The color photographs...
...Flint Ridge cave crawl. But caving is difficult enough to call for a rare sort of courage and endurance. A common technique, horrifying to imagine, is to exhale in order to reduce the size of the rib cage, then squiggle along, unable to breathe deeply until the squeezeway widens. To do this in an unknown passage, realizing that rescue is impossible and that the passage may narrow, not widen, is not simply grubby-it is gallant...
Shinagel foresees the establishment of a secondary student "career discovery" program of pre-professional courses and of an intensive foreign student program as first steps in an attempt to widen the Summer School's appeal...