Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...convoy labored up the steep switchbacks on Route 19. Guards nervously rode rifle atop every truck. Three hours out of coastal Qui Nhon, the vehicles pulled into Mang Yang pass-favorite ambush point for the Viet Cong on the 100-mile highway to Pleiku. Along the edge of the narrow road were massive craters. To clear the V.C. from the pass, high-flying B-52s from Guam had blasted Mang Yang with bombs the night before. Once past the pass, the guards relaxed, and the convoy-the first since the end of May-rolled on into the beleaguered town...
...Brooks is an oily-smooth sinister Tolen in narrow trousers, high-heeled boots and dark glasses, cool, suave, and detestable. Michael Crawford and Donal Donnelly play awkward Colin and buck-toothed Tom with childish glee and exuberance, especially when Colin finds a bed far bigger than Tolen's could possibly...
...P.D.T., the wide-angle sensor detected the edge of Mars. Twenty-three minutes later, the narrow-angle sensor also picked up Mars. Presumably, the picture-taking sequence had begun. At 5:30 p.m., Jack James, Assistant Deputy Director of JPL in charge of lunar and planetary projects, grinned broadly as he received a report by telephone. Goldstone, he told newsmen, had just verified that the tape recorder was running. The chances of getting pictures were excellent. Mariner's cheering section broke out in applause...
White admitted that on such a tour he was bound to see "the best of America, the young, the enthusiastic, the idealistic, the hopeful to learn." He perceived nonetheless that Americans can be crass, narrow-minded and dismayingly conformist. Confined to a New Orleans hospital throughout the ordeal of President Kennedy's assassination and burial, he sensed that the whole nation shared something akin to "a schoolboy's innocent guilt." But White felt that the U.S. today is "something like a modern Elizabethan England" and concluded that "people who live in Renaissances are apt to live with violence...
...relaxed schedule: a noontime apéritif in the sun-drenched Piazza del Duomo, where one was sure to see George Balanchine and the Maharani of Jaipur. Or late lunch in the Trattoria Panciolle, followed by a long siesta. The music of pianos, violins and vocalizing floats out of narrow Renaissance windows; artists and audience are on first-name terms within hours. After dusk, international jet setters in white dinner jackets brush shoulders with gaping locals in sweatshirts at the superheated discothéque. Then it is on to a 16th century vaulted cellar that serves cannelloni till dawn...