Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Penn was sharp in the scoreless first quarter, out-hustling a Harvard team customed to the Quakers' narrow field. A rough offense and a solid defense the Crimson back-pedalling for most of the period. Several drives on the Crimson cage were deflected only by luck and the alert play of fullback Charlie David...
...editorial, the CRIMSON strongly favored the system of Proportional Representation which for twenty years has given Cambridge truly representative government. It also asserted that, while the CCA has definitely been a force for good government in the city, until recently that organization has reflected the interests of only a narrow portion of Cambridge's population--notably the residents of West Cambridge...
...Communist worker, Evtushenko is celebrated for vividly erotic lyrics ("Coursing regally, your whole body feels you are a queen") that have drawn down official ire for their "scandalous and somewhat noisy notoriety." One poem that raised official blood pressures was about a low-life nihilist-"He wore narrow trousers/ He read Hemingway"-who in the poem's climax loses his life trying to save a drowning comrade. This, to Marxist critics, is "poetic dishonesty...
...most determined show of U.S. strength since the Berlin crisis began, but staged belatedly, over a narrow issue. If one U.S. bulldozer had been at work on Aug. 13 to stop East Germany when it put up the Wall, then last week's Jeep convoys, backed by growling tanks, would probably not have had to shuttle in and out of East Berlin to demonstrate Western rights...
...begins, the early man stirs in his sleep on the kitchen floor, gets up and lights the grill. One by one the others arrive. The chef is a narrow-eyed old-timer who minds his peas and cutlets. The fish cook (Carl Mohner) is a burly young German bursting with aggressive force, manic charm, balked ambition and jealous lust for a pretty, flirty waitress (Mary Yeomans). The butcher is a steady boozer who loathes the "lousy forriners'' he works with and keeps squalling:' "Speak bloody English!" The vegetable cook is a soiled blimp who waggles her massive...