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The scandal over deaf Mexican slaves widened.
John Walter Jones, chief executive of the Welsh Language Board, says that widened horizons may also be to blame: The world has widened and some of the things that used to be local have been lost in that widening process.
The nuclear gap between the two countries has widened in India's favor: "Pakistan's generals may not mind sacrificing a few hundred of their soldiers and Afghan mercenaries to Indian air strikes, but they are not going to expose their own cities to needless risk."
The road leading to Laurel Heights (where the editorial offices of VERBATIM are situated and which is, believe it or not, somewhat elevated from the surrounding land, a laurel or two can actually be found there, too) is named Boggy Hole Road, an apt name till a year ago or so, when the town of Old Lyme rebuilt it, widened it, paved it, and provided it with drainage; it is now in such good condition that I have suggested that the name be changed to Boggy Hole Boulevard, an idea that has not found much favor at the town hall.
The bizarre lesbian expression fuckerware party gathering for the group use of sex toys seems, contrary to expectations, to be real; the definition of fist-fuck, originally limited to anal fisting, has been widened (with citations) to allow for vaginal fisting as well.