Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such an answer is too narrow. These celebrities work before audiences, which ask only to be entertained-and which are too often unwilling to accept the Negro as an equal beyond recognition of physical or artistic talent...
...earn a degree in social thought, students must prove that ordinary graduate work is too narrow for the "unifying" idea that consumes them. Any field is legitimate, including art, poetry or music. Without blinking, the committee has, for example, taken on explorers of innocence in 19th century America, Islamic dissenters in the Middle Ages, Chinese intellectuals and the West, and "the theory of self-love" in economics...
Still Talking. The FBI admitted that it had got some help from young Sinatra. In one of the rare moments when his blindfold was removed, Frank Jr. managed to spot the name of a restaurant on a bag of sandwiches his captors had just bought. That helped narrow the search for the house in which he had been hidden to Los Angeles' Canoga Park area. He carefully counted the aircraft that passed close overhead, helped to establish the fact that the house was in the approach path to an air terminal. It was, as it turned out, the Lockheed...
Nothing so irritates Harry Bridges, now 62, as the notion that the automation agreement means that he is mellowing. Says he: "We've merely adopted a very selfish, narrow program to take care of the people in our union." Yet others insist that he really enjoys his new status. Explains Bridges' "friendly foe," Maritime Negotiator J. Paul St. Sure: "It got a little trying for him to hear all the time about what a rough s.o.b. he was. He likes his present role." Although Bridges lives in a modest two-bedroom house with his third wife Noriko...
...deal's been made," shouted a stubble-bearded Bernard Rifkin. "I'm getting the hell out of here!" And out he went, elbowing past the bowler-hatted women guards, and down the narrow stairs to the dirt street below. After him tumbled three more Americans and 13 other hostages, as their surprised lady jailers shrieked at them to halt. "The uncertainty was the signal to move," Michael A. Kristula recalled later. "I said to myself that if the crowd outside was hostile, all we could do was go up the stairs again. But the crowd was friendly...