Word: narrowings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Royal Henley Regatta is famouts in international rowing for the top-light crews it attracts here, and for its tradition-laden gala festivities. Doughty old gentlemen, biazered in their school colors, return by the thousands here to watch the shells race up Henley's narrow, twisting course on the Thames River...
...plainly too diminutive to meet the Navy's minimum height requirement (5 ft. 6 in.). So Victor Krulak persuaded a buddy to hit him on the head in hopes of raising a bump big enough to narrow the stature gap. That ploy failed, so-bloody but unbowed-Krulak petitioned and won the right to join the U.S. Marines as the shortest man in the corps. His Annapolis instructors also rated him low-among the bottom 10% of the class of '34 in military aptitude...
...Such narrow horizons shape the French workers' attitudes toward politics. Most workers are largely apolitical, openly cynical, and mistrustful of all shades of politicians and parties. The feeling is not entirely unjustified, since in the past France's established parties have indeed done little for the worker. Such support as the Communist party enjoys stems from the fact that the workers feel that the Communist labor unions have fought hardest for their economic gains. Furthermore, unlike bourgeois Frenchmen, the worker feels little or no fear about ultimate Communist intentions. "Even if they were to get the control," said...
...NARROW is the horizon in Ward 6, Surgical. It is a drab room, twice as long as it is wide, divided down the center by a low partition. Two rows of steel beds run like exposed ribs down each side. At one end is the businesslike nurses' station, a bookcase with a collection of old magazines and paperbacks, a too-loud TV set. There are no flowers, no pictures, no decorations. There are windows all around, but no one bothers to look...
Schumacher obtains his electron projectiles by boiling them off a heated metal cathode. High-power electrical fields focus them into a narrow beam and boost them up to tremendous speeds - in much the same manner as electron beams are generated inside a TV picture tube. But Schumacher's gun has a special capability: its electron beam maintains its focus and power for a short distance after it squirts out of the gun barrel and into the atmosphere. In earlier experimental cutters the beam lost its power almost immediately in collisions with air molecules; the target material...