Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seem as placid as the emerald waters that lap their pearl-white beaches. In the westernmost backwater of Charles de Gaulle's French community 4,250 miles from Paris, natives and tourists sit at sunny, sidewalk tables placidly nibbling crusty French bread and sipping flat French beer; in narrow streets, the scent of bougainvillaea mingles with the fumes of beeping Simcas and Peugeots. And when le grand Charles stops over in Guadeloupe and Martinique this week on the way to and from his four-day visit to Mexico, he will find that the populace - even the Communists...
...Laude degrees. But at least one practical difficulty remains with the formula outlined above: "While it rewards a student for work outside his field, it may also destroy the record of, say, an adventurous English concentrator who decided to take a physics course. In this case the formula would narrow the educational scope it set out to widen...
...exciting portrait of Master Jazzman Thelonious Monk [Feb. 28]. Mr. Monk deserves more than a narrow cult of followers. Although his musical explorations are personal and uncompromising, their emotional appeal is broad and basic. Anyone witnessing a performance by his group will realize that Monk's dramatic "stage presence" is vital to the dignity, humor and discipline of his music...
Lyndon even made U.S. hatmakers happy-something that tousled Jack Kennedy was never able to do-by inspiring an L.B.J. hat. The Hat Corp. of America announced plans to put out two-and three-gallon models with relatively narrow two-inch brims-scaled-down versions of Lyndon's five-gallon Stetson. One thing that is not scaled down is the price-which ranges from $12.95 to $100. All that Lyndon gets from the deal is publicity, but that's enough...
...looked like a busy, busy squirrel that owned a great oak tree and spent its days dashing about the limbs to make sure all the acorns remained in place. Part of Baker's job was keeping track of the voting. On important measures, he usually kept tab on narrow white tally sheets. On the more routine votes, he would more than likely be found just inside the rear center door, telling arriving Democrats what was at issue and how the leadership-meaning Johnson-wanted them to vote...