Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miles. For seven hours an artillery barrage rolled across the town, bringing ruin and death. A mosque collapsed on its worshipers. A U.S. Protestant mission school gaped with holes after direct hits. As the people fled many were trampled by stampeding buffalo or raked with shrapnel in the narrow streets...
Should China seize Sikkim, it would be in a position to close the narrow neck of land linking India proper to the state of Assam and the North East Frontier Agency, as well as open a route from China to East Pakistan. Well aware of the danger, India has kept two divisions of trained mountain troops based at Kalimpong for just such an eventuality...
...valley grew narrow and narrower still...
...flames devoured what little oxygen there was, several men tried to crawl into air-conditioning ducts. The elevator was stalled for lack of power, and the only way up was a single ladder. Trapped workmen piled onto it in panic, and two wedged themselves hopelessly together in one narrow section of the ladderway, blocking those behind them. All 53 remaining in the silo died...
...California, where the doctrine of strict liability is well established. In San Jose, G.M. successfully de fended itself against Doreen Collins, 39, a divorcee seeking $400,000 in compensatory damages for a grisly ac cident in 1962 when she was driving her fiance's 1960 Corvair on a narrow two-lane highway near El Nido. The car swerved out of control and hit a 16-ton truck head on, killing her fiance and one of her five children. For Plaintiff Collins, Lawyer David Harney called 46 expert witnesses to back the Collins claim that the 1960 Corvair was "inherently...