Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week. The government desperately needed gold to pay for war purchases, but few patriots were willing to turn in their hoards, even on the attractive official terms for payment. Civil defense measures were a joke, slit trenches being dug in New Delhi were both too shallow and too narrow, and a scandal boiled up over the substandard cement used in air raid shelters. So hard up was the government for arms that it asked India's maharajahs to turn over their tiger-hunting guns to defenseless villagers on the northern frontier. Perhaps to stiffen his resolve, a newspaper...
...landscapes" that over the years had become more and more stagy and contrived. The elementary idea that an artist could set up his easel out of doors and produce a serious painting was new and radical in early 19th century France. "Barbizon artists," writes Herbert, "were the first to narrow the gap that had traditionally existed between the direct sketch and the finished studio picture...
...consistent Yardlings (who breezed by Springfield 73 to 22 last Saturday) grabbed ten first places out of eleven events. The home team's only win was a narrow victory in the 100-yard free style over Harvard's Paul Profeta who usually swims...
...Emergency living conditions in Tezpur were primitive. "I slept in a tent, and one night a sacred cow ate my socks." reported Behr. After badgering authorities, he was permitted to visit the front lines. In Jeep and truck, the journey took 18 hours through nearly impenetrable jungles and over narrow, rutted mountain paths up to 13,000 ft. high. Says Behr: "No devilish imagination could ever plan any such testing ground for troops or transport...
...overwrought reasons for joining the church, and his equally intense motives for abandoning it, are used to give us a feeling for the narrow, degrading set of experience on which an American Negro must base his most important decisions. Then he tells of the problems that confront a Negro who decides to quit Harlem. He generalizes his own experience into a description of the relationship between a sensitive Negro and the ominous white world that surrounds him, and of Christianity and the Africans who adopted...