Word: spaciousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good, ripe age of 43 and the presidency approach, Alemán has tempered, mellowed. When not campaigning, he spends his evenings quietly with political allies or at his spacious Mexico City home, listening to classical recordings with his pleasant wife and young daughter. Weekends, he is in summery Cuernavaca, golfing, visiting friends like Swedish Industrialist Axel Wenner-Gren (U.S. black-listed), gazing wryly at the neighboring home of Oppositionist Candidate and ex-Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla...
...Spacious, well-kept West Adams Heights still had the complacent look of the days when most of Los Angeles' aristocracy lived there. But the look was deceiving. In the Los Angeles courtroom of Superior Judge Thurmond Clarke last week some 250 of West Adams' residents stood at swords' points...
...dramatic punch. A fledgling Broadway playwright, Lillian Smith too often wobbles in her storytelling, too often fails to pick up the dramatic scent. An unconverted novelist, she has gamely but unwisely tried to transfer to the stage the whole life of a Georgia town. The result is far less spacious than sprawling...
General McClure ran his show from a spacious compound in Kunming, a stone's throw from the terminus of the Burma Road. He bellowed, spark-plugged and steamrollered the Chinese divisions within the C.C.C. from an amorphous lump into a cohesive weapon. He was assisted by such capable officers as Brigadier General George Olmstead, 44, a levelheaded lowan who ran G5; and Brigadier General Paul Caraway, 39, West Point-trained son of Arkansas' Senator Hattie Caraway and an outstanding planner, who served as Deputy Chief of Staff...
What Ottawa now has of gracious streets and spacious vistas is largely the work of Jacques Greber. Before the war he drew up a plan for beautifying the city, beginning with a landscaped plaza in the center of the business district and radiating out from there. Now he would really start radiating...