Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seconds before the crash, the DC-6 roared 100 feet over the floor of a narrow valley near Mt. Carmel. It was heading into a coal mine's tall breaker building. Then it veered-and the next instant there was no more plane. It rammed a 66,000-volt transformer and disintegrated in a flash of flame. It was 1948's worst airline disaster, and the fourth worst in U.S. domestic airline history...
First, after breezing through two easy opponents, he ran into a stone wall in the form of Welby Van Horn. After five grueling sets, Big Jake wobbled to the marquee none too pleased about his narrow victory: "My racket felt like a baseball bat." Two days later he squared off against ex-Champion Don Budge. Again Big Jake was carried to five sets. Budge's famous backhand was never better, but at 33, his stamina was not so good. Despite all the tea and sugar he consumed, Budge collapsed in the fifth set, won only one point...
...centuries, native treasure hunters have searched for that cave, reasoning that the walled-up soldiers must have carried valuable loot. One of the searchers found an empty cave in Antelias valley. Near by he noticed a similar rock formation, its mouth choked with debris. He dug a narrow shaft, and found not a walled-up army lying among its treasures, but at least a few chips of man-worked flint. The chips were spotted by a kibitzing U.S. archeologist, and a Jesuit task force attacked the cave to find what manner of ancient man had lived...
...uniform and white Arab headdress. Playing the double role of Saladin and Richard the Lion-Hearted, he prayed first at the Dome of the Rock Mosque, third holiest shrine in Islam, then in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. As the little king walked through the narrow lanes Arabs shouted: "Long live Abdullah! You are King of Jerusalem...
Thus, since the early '303, N.A.M. has "opposed; never did it lead . . . The ready willingness of the Association's policymakers to lay the blame for all social and economic ills at the feet of other groups or institutions offers further evidence of the narrow base from which the Association has operated . . . The extreme conservatism of the N.A.M. ... is reason for real alarm...