Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...status of Nationalist China's seat on the Security Council, on the ground that the Nationalist China government no longer represents the Chinese. Since 1956, the General Assembly has rejected proposals to put the question of China's U.N. representation on its agenda, but by an increasingly narrow margin...
...Just how narrow the Kennedy victory was could be seen in the arithmetic: including shaky California and Illinois, Kennedy had won 332 electoral votes; Nixon, with razor-close Alaska, had 191; the popular-vote spread was a hairline 279,000. It was so close that Republican National Chairman Thruston Morton called for a recount of the votes in Kennedy-edged Texas, Illinois, Delaware, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. Some Republicans even dared hope that the recounts might still add up to a Nixon victory (but Nixon disassociated himself from the whole project...
...first impression of Hong Kong itself is of noise: the staccato of pneumatic drills, thump of pile drivers, cries of hawkers, click of mah-jongg tiles behind shuttered doors, the shouts of coolies dancing under the weight of bamboo shoulder poles. Brass bands sound funeral dirges in the narrow streets; radios whine the cacophony of Cantonese music; the rataplan of $1,000 worth of firecrackers announces a wedding, a birth, or the grand opening of a new noodle store...
...power adjustments to keep them from overshooting or undershooting the runway. They must fly "by the numbers"-at precise letdown speeds, with their wing flaps set precisely right and their noses at the correct angle. Once a 150-ton jet is committed to land, it must follow a very narrow "slot of forgiveness," never deviating appreciably as it approaches the runway...
Although Senator Kennedy has won the election, he has not received the kind of support that most liberals were hoping for. His narrow margin in the popular vote did not amount to a strong national mandate for progressive legislation, and the phenomenal number of split ballots indicates that more and more voters tend to differentiate between national and local concerns...