Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home from the Appalachian ghettoes of Cleveland, Dayton, Akron, and Detroit, from the Chevrolet assembly lines and the Goodyear rubber plants. They will pour out in their new cars, filled with their new children, to show off in front of family and old high school friends, to make the narrow mountain roads a bit more dangerous for a few days. Union Dues captures this spirit; Sayles knows, as they do, deep down, that they are interlopers almost anywhere except the hills. As for most of us, beneath their restlessness and urge to roam is the desire to come back home...
...narrow escape revitalized Harvard and sent them scurrying to the opposite end of the field for a couple of last gasp attempts to score. Ann Forbes halted them again, however, gathering two ground shots into her capable hands...
Journalists are acutely aware of one characteristic of the terrorist of the '70s: however small his numbers or narrow his cause, he commands attention. Our Bonn bureau, which provided much of the reporting for this week's cover stories on the international terrorism phenomenon, is a case in point...
After a long wet day, a wrinkled but much-improved water polo team surfaced Saturday with an 8-7 upset win over Yale and a narrow 8-6 loss...
Gerhard Casper, University of Chicago Law School: "I assume the Supreme Court will try to come down with a very narrow ruling in the Bakke case. But whether it will rule in favor of Mr. Bakke, I just don't know. The case is one of the most explosive ever, with great implications. The country is not ready to have the case decided yet. The court does not want to impose its will on the people when it will leave a large part of the country unhappy either...