Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Narrow Escape...
...publish that," the sallow-faced little man told the New York Times reporter, "I'll come and get you and I'll kill you. I may kill you right now." Wedged into a narrow booth in a dingy luncheonette in Queens, Timesman McCandlish Phillips watched the man, who had been trained in exotic varieties of violence, toy with a table knife. Finally, Phillips suggested that they go outside, where "I figured I had more maneuverability." Phillips got away as soon as he could and went back to the city room to write his story...
Solstice & Equinox. Standing among the giant slabs, Hawkins was struck by the way the early architects had limited his exterior view. Looking through one of the narrow trilithons and an aligned archway in the outer ring, he writes, "I felt that my field of observation was being tightly controlled, as by sighting instruments, so that I couldn't avoid seeing something." What the ancients were directing his attention to, Hawkins became convinced, was the rising and setting of celestial bodies, perhaps the sun or certain stars or planets. Returning to the U.S. with accurate charts of Stonehenge, he plotted...
...hesitates before the glass door of the downtown building, then pushes through and climbs a narrow staircase to the second floor. There he pauses again before the well-advertised insignia on another door, squares his shoulders and steps into a brightly lit room filled with the murmur of Muzak melo dies. The man is 37, married, and a fa ther. He is a steady wage earner with a $6,092-a-year income. He is also in debt (to the tune of $513) and pressed by his creditors. He is a typical customer who has come to solve his problems...
...crucial question is whether School Committee votes, based on a narrow, highly emotional issue, will hold good in a contest for the leadership of the New Boston. Mrs. Hicks did carry Boston in her unsuccessful candidacy for State Treasurer last year, but as in the past, she was competing for the political second string. If she wants to take the helm of an All American City, Louise Hicks will have to doctor her image considerably. She now stands on a completely negative, reactionary platform, and is better known as an ax-man than as an innovator...