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Word: narrowness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these limited targets that Washington began hammering again last week. No strikes were being permitted north of the narrow waist of North Viet Nam (see map)-thus sparing the enemy's industrial heartland around Hanoi and Haiphong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Noise in the North | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

...turns, bobbing is one of the world's most exacting sports. The trick is to stay just short of disaster, taking the steeply banked turns as high as possible (so as to pick up speed on the way down), threading an absolutely straight course through the narrow straightaways, where a momentary miscalculation will slam the sled into a solid wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bobsledding: Just Short of Disaster | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

Tomorrow night the Crimson travels to Columbia. The Lions eked out a narrow 75-73 win over Harvard last month...

Author: By R. ANDREW Seyer, | Title: Crimson Five to Face Cornell Squad Tonight | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

...Harvard by treating it as a time for trade schooling. He confuses the issue at times by seeming to approve of such an approach by specialists in law, education, or science, but his main contention nevertheless rests on the assumption that Niamey Fellows spend too much time on too narrow a range of subjects. Even if this were necessarily a bad thing--and again Artery points approvingly to the example of Anthony Lewis of The New York Times to illustrate that it does not have to be--his assumption not be correct. There are at least as many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nieman Fellows Criticize 'Crimson' Article | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

Each spring, two Harvard-Radcliffee students descend the Canyon walls to spend three months in Supai. Usually the students have never been farther west than Pittsburgh. The West, they think, must be no more complex than jostling down a narrow trail on a donkey piled with gear, or pulling catfish out of the Colorado River above the rapids...

Author: By Linda G. Mcveigh, | Title: PBH Volunteers Strive to Understand Problems, Fears of American Indians | 2/7/1966 | See Source »

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