Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BEEN MORE THAN 130 years since Cornelius Vanderbilt purchased exclusive right of way across the narrow strip of land that separates Atlantic and Pacific in Nicaragua. It has been 46 years since General Anastasio Somoza Garcia took control of the Nicaraguan National Guard from the United States Marines and promptly ordered the murder of nationalist hero Augusto Sandino. And it has been several months now since the front pages of America's newspapers sported gory tales of the thousands of civilian deaths that the same National Guard caused in the wake of the massive but unsuccessful popular uprising that racked...
...three days, the 300,000 residents of the holy city of Qum had carefully scrubbed the dusty streets and minareted buildings, making ready for the Ayatullah's return. Now, hundreds of thousands of people, chanting "God is great," lined the narrow highway from Tehran to catch a glimpse of him as his motorcade drove by. When the blue Mercedes bearing the 78-year-old Shi'ite leader neared the city, the throng burst through a cordon of police and armed Islamic guerrillas. It engulfed the car in a sea of humanity so dense that it took nearly...
Bowersock said last year's proposal to limit the range of courses in the program was probably viewed as "too narrow" by some. A representative review panel, if proposed, "would be able to decide in controversial cases--if a representative group though the multiflex was a good course, then we could have it," Bowersock said...
...Daniel I. Schecter, a former Nieman Fellow and former WBCN news director, says, "The new management is hiding behind narrow legalisms to evade their moral responsibility...
Unlike the heavy, metal-edged varieties used by downhill aficionados, touring skis are narrow and graceful. The waxable kind that require specially color-coded waxes for different temperatures give optimum performance. But the skier must become something of an expert on snow and weather conditions and take the time to continually change waxes: a day's outing could necessitate the use of green for subzero temperatures, blue for slightly warmer air and red for melting snow. The more casual cross-country skier usually chooses a waxless ski that comes grooved with fish-scale, diamond or chevron patterns to provide...