Word: narrowings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brooke won his home territory, Newton, by a narrow 2600-vote margin...
...scramble, the whole game was a scramble," Van Beek said of the goal after the narrow victory...
...screening room has wall-to-wall carpeting. Spider plants spill down from pots hung near the windows. A poster urges lucky tourists to ski the slopes at nearby Westford. Belisle's manner is businesslike. At 35 he is already graying and his narrow face has a mournful, clerkish look. But the transactions he records in this brightly furnished office in Worcester, Mass., deal not with commerce but with cruelty. And cruelty of a kind that few people can contemplate with any measure of equanimity-the torture of small children by their parents...
...country then was on an emotional high, ready for new politics, prepared to change, to dare, to follow where the new President might lead. Carter might have called for sacrifices by special interest groups for the benefit of all. He might have championed the repeal of narrow and highly inflationary laws -legislation that, to cite only two of many examples, mandates that the steepest union wages be paid on Government-aided construction jobs and requires that high-cost U.S. ships carry all cargo moving between domestic ports...
Such tensions might have destroyed him. Instead, they lent rare power to his fiction. He learned to see two distinct ways of life. One belonged to the smug, narrow, easily shocked circle populated by his mother and her friends. The other possessed his imagination: total friendship, passionate, uninhibited and free, with a like spirit. Artistically, Forster did not want to choose, to become simply a novelist of manners or a poet of pleasures. The motto of his fourth novel, Howards End (1910), captured both the dilemma and the hope: "Only connect...