Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Building Bridges. As an economist, Wilson knows the dangers of this narrow approach; fact is, Common Market membership would stimulate British industry, even provide more jobs through the healthy influence of competition, and would widen the market for British goods...
Berries in the Fall. Albert Lasker, himself a cancer victim, died 13 years' ago at 73. But Mary kept moving, has involved herself in a dazzling variety of civic ventures. She makes her headquarters in a narrow, 71-story town house on Manhattan's fashionable Beekman Place. White, even to the furniture and the rugs on the floor, is the background -her paintings. There is a Monet a Picasso, a Lautrec. Five Matisses hang in the dining room; Van Gogh's Zouave over the living room couch faces a Renoir girl in a boat over the fireplace...
...vote of 8 to 0, the Supreme Court last week upheld both Lamont and Heilberg. "We rest on the narrow ground that the addressee in order to receive his mail must request in writing that it be delivered," said Justice William O. Douglas. "This amounts in our judgment to an unconstitutional abridgment of the addressee's First Amendment rights." In short, he may be embarrassed or harassed, just because he likes to read things that upset other people. The deficit-ridden Post Office is hardly dismayed. By quitting the censorship business, it can now save $250,-000 a year...
Wearing their caps backwards to distinguish themselves from the rebels, Imbert's troops proceeded to batter the rebels in a full-scale battle. Clanking through the narrow streets, loyalist tanks fired point-blank into every house suspected of harboring rebels. So vicious was the fighting that a hapless taxi driver who got out to fix a flat was gunned down and lay there a day because no one dared venture into the street. Rebels trying to escape through the rat-infested sewers were flushed out with tear...
Meanwhile, up the Bay of Bengal into East Pakistan raged one of the huge cyclones that commonly rise at the start of the monsoon. Winds howling up to 100 m.p.h. washed 13-ft. tidal waves over the narrow channels of the Ganges delta, flooding the alluvial fields, smashing and flattening the green stalks of the vital jute crop, ripping apart banana, betel nut and coconut palm plantations, uprooting giant mango orchards and inundating thousands of acres of rice. In East Pakistan's capital of Dacca, 125 miles from the sea, millions spent four terrified hours in the dead...