Word: narrow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feel really wonderful," said Wolf volunteer Victoria I. Tamas, 35, a policy analyst at the Cambridge Housing Authority. "I was very excited to be part of a narrow victory last time, and it's even better to be part of a large...
...last election, he beat Benzan, who was running as an independent, by a very narrow margin...
...personal favorite is a piece of installation art by James Turrell--a dimly lighted room that the viewer enters through a narrow, black hallway. Inside are two dim lamps pointing toward opposite walls and what appears to be a black rectangle hung on the wall. I walked in and was not impressed. I'm not anti-minimalist--in fact, I loved the minimalist collection of the Orange County Museum--but two lights and a rectangle in a dark room...
...seasick soldiers slaughtered the minute the ramps on their landing boats are lowered; other men clambering over the sides trying to avoid the fire, only to drown under the weight of their packs; the surf turning red with the blood of the slaughtered; some who make it to the narrow beach huddling immobilized yet pathetically vulnerable behind what little cover they can find. A few inch forward, hoping perhaps that being a moving target is safer than being a stationary...
...that I like to belittle my hometown as narrow-minded, but, increasingly, the "you're an alien, stop complaining" attitudes are difficult to ignore. Topeka and Kansas as a whole often seem to fall some steps behind the pace of the rest of the nation...