Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Admirable indeed was the virtue of Hui. With a single dish of rice, a single gourd of drink, he lived in his mean, narrow lane. Yet he enjoyed his life where others suffered. Admirable indeed was the virtue...
Admirable indeed was the restraint of Nikita Khrushchev. From the mean, narrow lane of Chinese Communism, Mao Tse-tung has not been content to preach heresy. In the past six months he has aimed a rising torrent of abuse at the anointed heir of Marx and Lenin in Moscow. Invoking every filthy word in the canons of Communism, the Red Confucius labeled Khrushchev a revisionist splitter and quitter who has betrayed the faith by eschewing hard, revolutionary action in Africa, Asia and Latin America, espousing peaceful coexistence, and signing the nuclear test-ban treaty...
...tiny, 50-yd. stretch of border between friendly Bechuanaland and Northern Rhodesia that refugees from South and South West Africa may cross in safety. Even so, only a rifle shot west of this chink in the apartheid curtain, menacing reed banks mask the end of the Caprivi Strip, a narrow arm of South West Africa that is heavily patrolled by armed South African cops. To the east, a wire game-fence marks the border of white-supremacist Southern Rhodesia, which also views with suspicion this traffic in escaping Africans...
...built by Ed ("Big Daddy ) Roth, who owns a shirt factory m May wood, Calif. One of the most revered fast-iron designers in the US Roth spent $12,000 putting together this machine monster. It has built-in hi-fi and television, huge maximum-traction tires behind and narrow motorcycle tires up front. Its two Ford Thunderbird engines develop 1,000 h p and every cylinder is wrapped in bright chrome...
...jungles of Sarapiqui, northeast of San Jose, that U.S. hunters are heading. There, packs of as many as 1,000 wild pigs grunt through the bush, uprooting and trampling all the foliage in their path. Timid, 600-lb. tapirs-distant relatives of the African rhinoceros-plod warily along the narrow, muddy trails. Chachalacas, parrots and howler monkeys noise endlessly from the tree tops...