Word: narrowings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...snare drummer picked up a hot shuffle; the second line cheered and lept into motion. The band broke into a riotous number called "Joe Avery's Blues" and began to march down a narrow little brick street behind the French Quarter. This was a soul neighborhood, and the people were hanging out of their sagging window sills and doorways and sitting on front porches of little splintery wooden houses. Children ran out of the alleys and into the street. The old people smiled and nodded approvingly from their rocking chairs. Scruffy little barking dogs were running all around...
...second line reformed. They shouted, they danced, they bumped and ground. The trumpets blared, the clarinet soared, the bass drum throbbed, the trombones moaned. All like human voices--fine, rich human voices, singing out their eternal song of life and death as they marched on down the narrow brick street
Yale then called upon right-hander Bob Wright, who held Harvard to a mere single in the final four innings. Meanwhile, starter Kalinoskl threw home run pitches to Bernie Sowley and Bob Bayless to narrow the lead to 7-6 in the ninth. With the tying run on second and Brian Dowling dreaming of comeback victories, Dorwart came in to fire a called third strike past the Bulldog's Bob Small...
...three-legged ladder puts one farther away from his work than an equivalent height four-legger. Furthermore, that top step will be very narrow and that's where most people stand...
...measures which were enacted into law have been ignored by the Administration, largely because Secretary of HEW Robert Finch feels that Federal interference is what college administrators need the least. But the laws remain on the books, and under a more repressive Secretary would narrow the options of college administrators, forcing hasty overreactions...