Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most significantly, the compromise bill envisions a novel approach to punishment under guidelines to be established by a Federal Sentencing Commission. A narrow range of jail terms and fines is to be set up for each specific crime, and judges will be required to record their reasons for each sentence. Either side can appeal any divergence from the guidelines...
Novelists who have trained as journalists can usually be identified by their lack of plumage. There is something about trying to interpret the world in narrow columns that keeps the feathers compact and flat. Sentences tend to dart rather than gyrate. Effects are sought with tone and timing; ironies are implied, not spelled out. Anyone who has followed Joan Didion's career as a magazine writer can easily discern the newsprint between her fine lines. Slouching Towards Bethlehem, a collection of her best magazine work, brought wide praise in 1968. With the publication of her novel Play...
Osterndorf emphasized the narrow focus of the study on academic selection and student enrollment. He said textbook sales were not considered a factor in the survey...
...Comrade Chiang Ch'ing is prepared!" These words were the summons to leave the guesthouse, where we had been waiting, and begin the drive to Chiang Ch'ing's villa. Leading to [the] villa was a narrow winding road flanked by deep bamboo groves. In them, young PLA [People's Liberation Army] guards, bayonets glinting, were partially hidden...
...walked along, Chiang Ch'ing spoke briskly and excitedly. We had to pick our way gingerly to avoid being impaled on the glinting bayonets held by young PLA guards hidden in the bamboo thicket lining the narrow pathway...