Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purpose is to attract those who want to sing great music well by having each chorus do fewer concerts in less rehearsal time," Forbes said...
Though in private conversation Johnson had spoken disparagingly of Paris, he was only slightly worried about it. He would have preferred Geneva, which is sympathetic to the U.S., while Paris, with the biggest Vietnamese colony outside of Southeast Asia and no fewer than 150 Vietnamese restaurants, is definitely pro-Hanoi. In an early draft of his statement on the talks, Johnson betrayed some apprehension about how the French would act when he said that he hoped they would grant equal treatment to all parties. The final draft described France as a country "where all parties should expect such treatment." Despite...
...with the aid of seven men newly elected to the 19-member council, Mrs. Phillips pushed through a law even stiffer than the new federal statute. While the federal law will cover some 80% of the nation's housing by 1970, the Milwaukee measure, effective immediately, grants far fewer exceptions. The question now is whether the city, in the face of inevitable white backlash, can effectively enforce the ordinance...
Abernathy expects that fewer than 5000 poor people will stay in Washington for the entire campaign. He announced that "Resurrection City U.S.A." will be the name of the shanty town in Washington where the poor will stay...
...became clear to us," Graves said yesterday, "that the 80 who signed up were very interested indeed. We felt we should respond to their need and their interest, even though fewer people than we had hoped agreed to attend...