Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After last year's narrow loss of an ECAC playoff berth, the Watson rink faithful are more impressed with the rookies' performances. With Harvard headed for a playoff spot this year, all agree with Murray's thinking that "College hockey is more...
...surprise of Washington, if not to that of his countrymen, Begin became Premier after his Likud coalition won a narrow victory in last May's national election, thereby ending 29 years of Labor-led coalition governments. Many Israelis had dismissed Begin as an aging, right-wing relic of their country's fierce struggle for independence. But, though ailing with heart trouble, Begin has responded actively to Sadat; he has demonstrated a large sense of history and a determination to be remembered as the man who brought peace to Israel...
...space, the real Egypt?the land that man can live on?is small and lotus-shaped. A thin, two-to ten-mile-wide strip of green, the flower's stem, follows the Nile north from the Sudan border; then, near Cairo, comes the blossom, the Nile Delta. In that narrow space of 13,800 sq. mi., no larger than Taiwan, live 37.8 million people, or 97% of the country's population. Almost all the rest of Egypt is brutal, dun-colored desert, unchanged and scarcely touched since the pharaohs. Egypt today is still, as Herodotus wrote 2,500 years...
Although there are only about 216,000 cars registered in the city, they create monumental traffic jams as they try to negotiate the old, narrow streets or push aside carts pulled by horses or donkeys. The poor wait hours for buses, which are so crowded that passengers ride on the roofs and hang on the sides, clinging desperately to any vehicle that moves in the right direction...
Embarking on what he called "a mission that may be impossible," Jordan's King Hussein made quick visits to Damascus and Cairo. His aim was to narrow the distance between Sadat and Syria's President Hafez Assad, but there was no evidence that he had made much progress. Assad was also doing some lobbying. After meeting with Hussein, he flew to Riyadh, Kuwait and other gulf states in an effort to talk them out of giving further support to Sadat...