Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dimension to news coverage by the use of color. Thus TIME's eight pages of color in August on Southeast Asia showed the look - the beauty, the languor, the hardships, the progress - of a place that has become a cold war battleground. And the narrow alleys of the Casbah and the modern technological city of Colomb-Bechar (the Cape Canaveral of the Sahara), as shown in eight pages of color on Algeria last April, coincided with the news of the Generals' Revolt in Algiers...
...triumphs of our currently fashionable boudoir poets." Neatly exploiting peasant resentment of city slickers, Sholokhov blamed the "backwardness" of Red letters on the fact that the great majority of writers live in big cities, thus have "only superficial knowledge of quickly flowing and changing reality." In their "impossibly narrow trousers and absurdly broad-shouldered jackets," he scoffed, they are interested only in showing off to "the hysterical squeals of beatnik chicks."† He added that such poets would, in any case, be useless on the farm since they would soon be "nostalgic for warm toilets and the other city blessings...
...moon and the planets. Perhaps only rocks, perhaps exotic new minerals. But history's lesson is that explorers seldom find the expected. An eloquent case for aerospace is made by top Avco Corp. Researcher Dr. Arthur Kantrowitz: "To characterize aerospace as a growth industry is to take a narrow view. It is more like the discovery of America-a new opportunity for mankind. I keep telling my children that I wouldn't be surprised if their children lived in some brave new world in space, just as we came to America from the old countries. It might...
Austrians living near these borders are in the habit of entertaining themselves Sunday afternoons by looking across a river or a narrow no-man's-land at the Communist guards as each paces out his five hundred feet or so along the edge. From both sides they regard each other through binoculars and, occasionally, when an Eastern guard has become unnerved because of some tourist with a camera, e fires a pot shot across the line...
...Zagreb, while searching up and down the dingy narrow stairway of one of the better apartment buildings for the girl who had assured me in Vienna that she was a socialist and not a Communist, a young man of about twenty-four of five years stopped me and asked me in fairly good English if he could assist. Having ascertained that the girl was away in the country, I asked the man if he would like to join me that afternoon for coffee and tell me something about Zagreb. After a moment of nervousness he said, "I think maybe...