Word: wide
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dandy Phil, who lives in a brick mansion in the city, devoted himself to managing the lush dining room and the gaming tables of the white colonial Beverly Club, a Costello enterprise which had risen in 1945 in wide-open suburban Jefferson Parish...
Before 97,239 fans at Ann Arbor last week, Ohio State's Jim Hague tried for a vital fourth-quarter point after touchdown. The kick was wide, but after rival Michigan was called offside, Hague tried again and this time the ball went squarely between the goal posts. That tied the score, 7-7, and helped Ohio State finish the season as co-champions (with Michigan) of Western Conference football. It also guaranteed the Buckeyes a trip to the Rose Bowl...
...been hand-picking the breed of duck they would gun for, choosing them for flavor. Said one hunter down from Manitoba: "We all got canvasbacks. Had a camp rule that anyone who shot a duck besides a canvasback would be fined two-bits." On recipes there was a wide spread of opinion. Fast cooked, rare duck (20 minutes in a 500° oven) was fashionable with gourmets; some hunters were not above slicing off a few fillets and frying them...
Feather Beds. The ICC's 6-to-4 decision split the commission itself wide open. Though ex-Chairman J. Haden Alldredge voted for the raise, he warned that the railroads "certainly may be pricing themselves out of the market." He thought that the roads would be smarter to cut their fares and go after more business, and cited the example of the Central of Georgia, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas, and the Southern Pacific, which had boosted traffic by doing just that...