Word: narrowings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...veteran trackers who scoured the hilly forests, the twisting narrow roads, the abandoned cabins and non-working coal mines around Petros, Tenn., are a hardy tribe who know the countryside from childhood and can read it like Indian scouts. Explains Don Daugherty, 44, whose folks have lived in the Brushy area for two centuries...
...among the profligates of Europe, living it up as if someone else were responsible for their bills. Wages wildly outstripped productivity. Unemployment was the highest in Western Europe; inflation raged at an 18% rate. Public debt zoomed moonward at a catastrophic speed, while the idea of restricting consumption to narrow an enormous deficit elicited a knowing snigger. By calling a snap election for this week, Cosgrave has replaced romance with realism. The country, he says, must stop "this rake's progress...
Rosalynn also showed her concern for Jamaica's problems by making an emotional visit to two social service centers in a Kingston slum. Crowds lined the narrow streets as she walked three blocks from one center to the other, and an eleven-year-old girl broke through the guards, hugged her and traipsed along with the President's wife beneath the tropical...
...spectacle the likes of which most Spaniards had never seen. Only hours after the official opening of the country's first election campaign in 41 years, half a million political posters bloomed along the narrow streets and broad thoroughfares of Madrid. For the first time ever, politicians of all stripes, including the long-outlawed Communists, made campaign appearances last week over the air waves of the state-run television network, which had been created as an instrument of the Franco dictatorship. Across the country, nearly 6,000 candidates, vying for 557 parliamentary seats in the June 15 national election...
Just about everything that could go wrong did go wrong. The paratroopers' radios were faulty, so communication with them was impossible; fog in England hampered air-support operations; the road over which the ground forces were supposed to travel was too narrow, slowing their progress to a painful crawl. Finally, there were more German troops in the area than the Allied high command expected, partly because they had ignored their own intelligence reports...