Word: narrowings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Romans still point out the narrow street not far from the Trevi Fountain where, in March 1944, a partisan bomb attack wiped out a 33-man Waffen-SS unit. Kappler, then an SS colonel acting as police chief of the German occupation force in Rome, received orders from Berlin to execute ten times as many hostages in reprisal. Within 36 hours, German troops had rounded up several truckloads of Italian civilians. The Italians were taken to the ancient Ardeatine Caves three miles south of Rome and there were shot dead. The precise toll was 335-five more than Kappler...
...work of criminal psychologists in providing police with personality profiles of the likely killer was more accurate and perhaps did help narrow the search. Such a profile issued by police last May described the killer as "neurotic, schizophrenic and paranoid, with religious aspects to his thinking process, as well as hints of demonic possession and compulsion. He is probably shy and odd, a loner inept at establishing personal relationships, especially with women." Psychologists say Berkowitz is a psychopath, and all evidence points to his lonely nature and inability to relate normally to women...
...year-old chemistry teacher, died when a concussion grenade ruptured his lungs and caused internal hemorrhaging. At least 100 demonstrators and ten police were hurt, including some on both sides who lost hands or feet when concussion grenades exploded prematurely. The environmentalists, neatly bottled up on a narrow road, never had a chance to reach the nuclear site a mile from the battlefield, and their cause ended up as another casualty in the confusion. "What does beating up flics have to do with nuclear energy?" asked one disgusted demonstrator huddling in the chill rain. Scolded the newspaper Quotidien de Paris...
...walls and leather-tufted elevators. Yet for almost three decades, it was content to monitor the system of fixed exchange rates of member countries. Among other things, it put up short-term cash that nations could use to buy or sell their own currencies, keeping the values within the narrow band specified by IMF rules, and gave its approval-usually grudgingly-for devaluations or upward revaluations. After the U.S. severed the link between the dollar and gold reserves in 1971, the fixed-exchange-rate system collapsed, and nations allowed their currencies to find their own exchange levels in a relatively...
...total space devoted to editorial matter has actually increased slightly since the switch from eight narrow columns a page to six wide ones. Says Executive Editor A.M. (Abe) Rosenthal: "Other papers have added water to the soup, but we've added vegetables...