Word: narrow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Officials said the most difficult part of the snow removal process is navigating around the cars that are parked on the city's narrow, winding streets...
Sure, we have our professors from time to time, and the occasional north of 30 encounter with other members of the University community, but these are few and far between. We eat, sleep, study, party, do laundry, go shopping and watch sporting events all with members of our own narrow age group. In short, we are left feeling neither young nor old, but "X." I miss living with adults and going to school with kids; I miss seeing my age every day on the faces of others...
...have two children, one smart; my career will be intellectual-ish; and my libido is on an accelerating upswing. Nothing I couldn't have told you. But Paul's foresight wasn't entirely banal. He told me how to spot Murderer's Thumb--broad at the knuckle, narrow at the top. A statistically significant proportion of death row inmates have it. He also tried to justify his art by citing its genetic basis: apparently 60 percent of babies born with a simial line (when the intellect and love lines are one) will develop Down's Syndrome, and doctors always examine...
With gestures like that, she became a walking riposte to the palace, with its narrow, dated code of royal behavior. As has been pointed out many times, she was, if anything, a throwback to the Queen Mother, with her common touch and effortless rapport with ordinary people. When senior courtiers tried to limit Diana or downgrade her, they just looked pompous...
...years ago. They are people who went to college well and accurately, especially if they are under 30, and who know something of missing fields like geography and physical anthropology, fields that enable one to travel well. They are listeners who think in terms far more sophisticated than the narrow ones of English-only United States news media...