Word: widener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Inning seven, Boise: We sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." The Hawks widen their lead to a comfortable six runs. Pizza Hut is out of pizza thanks to the coaches of two different Little League teams...
...above. This isn't a plea for sympathy; along with their self-doubt, journalists are given to insufferable vanity and sanctimony. And if you're like most Americans, you despise them for it. But look a little closer, and see the newsreader's eyes widen when the TelePrompTer starts to stutter, or see the slight tremble in the hand that holds the notepad when the survivors tell the reporter to mind his own damn business. Look a little closer, and then the jig is up. Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: this...
...polarizing trend in the academic life of this college which is pulling apart the worlds of the sciences and of the humanities. The Humanities Center, clearly intended to have the same centralizing influence on the humanities that the Science Center did on--not coincidentally--the sciences, will undoubtedly also widen the gulf between students in the two different fields...
...Joni's biography," recalled the manager, Steve Macklam. He phoned to double-check the profile and speak to Kilauren. The next call came from Mitchell herself. "Hi, it's Joni. Please call me. I'm overwhelmed." Since then Gibb, who has a young son, has seen her family circle widen almost daily. First came a call from her grandparents in Saskatoon. Then last week she met her biological father. "I was always sort of looking for her on the street, even though I didn't know it," says Brad MacMath, a Toronto photographer. "To have a grown daughter and grandson...
...Hawks quickly regained momentum in the beginning of the second quarter when they scored two quick goals to widen...