Word: narrowings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people. From the very beginning, Hanoi broke that agreement by routing the main part of the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Laos. Now the North is stepping up its attacks on the Royal Lao government itself, hitting with force up and down the length of the narrow nation...
...world of believing in its own artifices and of vesting them with pompous officialdom. Steinberg contrasts the substantiality of a painted chunk of rich brown earth and a simple tree, with the frenzied intricacy of man's nervous world, by juxtaposing the two scenes on cliffs separated by a narrow but precipitous chasm...
Even with such sales, NCR still has only about a 2% share of the U.S. computer market v. the overwhelming 70% held by IBM. To narrow the gap, and to climb a few steps over other computer makers, Oelman has set what he calls a "minimum sales quota" of 5,000 Centurys worth $1 billion to be sold or rented during the next five years (initial orders last week: 208). One way NCR hopes to meet the quota is through improved technology. The company's laboratories have developed a new kind of memory system, which uses thin-film rods...
...Boston crew also won, so a Yankee final was set--appropriately enough--for July 4th: "They had beaten the German crew by only a narrow margin, the day before," Leverett Saltonstall would later recall, "and they weren't at their best...
Even with a narrow view to the present military pinch, Westmoreland's jingoism does not make much sense; this is the wrong time for the United States to close her options. Continuing the bombing is the reflex reaction to the enemy's offensive, but there still is no reason to believe that tactical bombing of the North has been, or is, militarily effective...