Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...together along the streets of Los Altos Hills, Calif. The bucolic town, 40 miles southeast of San Francisco, offered a peaceful setting for the so-called fun runs-until David Proft, a town councilman and high school teacher, got irritated by the hordes that streamed past his home on narrow Moody Road. Charging that group jogging constituted a public danger to motorists and to the runners themselves, he persuaded the town council to draw up an ordinance that would force two or more joggers running together to obtain a special permit from police. Enraged by such Big Brotherism, the joggers...
...Lawrence?frozen solid or clogged with ice floes for nearly five months a year?is the lifeline of Quebec: a rugged land of 594,860 sq. mi., bigger than France and Spain combined. As in the rest of Canada, most of the province's population huddles along a narrow ribbon in the south; the vast majority of Quebecois live within 50 miles of the St. Lawrence, and 82% live within 200 miles of Montreal (pop. 2,758,780). Quebec is rich in iron, copper, zinc and timber, and produces 80% of the non-Communist world's asbestos. Its 450 rivers...
Emily's leap of genius was to have the story of Heathcliff and Catherine's blighted love told by Lockwood, a prissy outsider, and by Nelly Dean, the prim housekeeper who had witnessed most of the novel's events. Such narrow-minded story tellers were ill-equipped to understand a raging natural force like Heathcliff, much less to sympathize with his condition. The greater their shock at Heathcliff s behavior, the more they condemned him, the clearer it became that Heathcliff existed on a plane beyond the grasp of normal comprehension. Emily also wisely kept...
...Corcoran and Sal D'Agostino both lost by narrow margins to their Princeton opponents. Evan Kovalsky edged Corcoran, 8-6, in the 158-lb. division, and D'Agostino, who was battling the flu, lost by a score of 12-7, to Mike Sherwood. At 190-lbs., D'Agostino has beaten Sherwood twice in the past and still has a very good shot at All-Ivy honors in his weight class...
...working notes Tolstoy made her ugly, giving her a narrow, low forehead and a nose so big that it was almost deformed. But in looks at least, Anna Karenina has been lucky. The author himself fell in love with her, performing a graceful act of plastic surgery before he introduced her to the public, and over the years she has been portrayed by some of the loveliest women in the world. The great Garbo played her twice, and Vivien Leigh added her exquisite beauty to the part 13 years later. In this ten-part series from the BBC, premiering...