Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coast from San Luis Obispo to Monterey. Most spectacular is the 102-mile stretch from William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon estate through the Big Sur country to Carmel: with bare, steep cliffs on one side and a dizzying drop to the sea on the other, the narrow ribbon loops and spirals like a drunk. Subject to landslides and often shrouded in fog, it is closed at the first hint of rain, infrequently traveled, perilous and lonely, yet exhilarating as a first trip to Chartres...
...provisions. These, he warned, would require the creation of a federal police force of mammoth proportions, would result in a "police state" and an "informer" psychology-"neighbors spying on neighbors, workers spying on workers, businessmen spying on businessmen, where those who would harass their fellow citizens for selfish and narrow purposes will have ample inducement...
...Operation Marquetalia" was virtually complete. The yellow-blue-and-red Colombian flag now flew over the area for the first time in its history. Tiro Fijo himself was holed up with 50 to 80 men in a narrow canyon six miles from his old base, and at week's end two army pincer columns were closing in for the kill...
...Christian A. Herter, former U.S. Secretary of State, now chief negotiator in tariff talks at Geneva-LL.D. He has well represented America to the world, placing dignity of man above the narrow claims of nationalism...
...handful of nominal Republicans, most of them coming from Cook County and, for the sake of reelection, more than willing to play footsie with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic machine. It was with the help of this group that in 1961 the assembly, although it had a narrow Republican majority, nonetheless elected a Democratic speaker. The so-called "West Side bloc" also gave the state Republican Party a bad image by standing steadfastly against such reforms as antigambling legislation...