Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee suggesting that he step down after eight years as leader of Canada's Conservatives. At last John Diefenbaker, 69, rose to speak. "I will not have it!" he roared. "That is all there is to it!" A few minutes later, his supporters rejected the proposal by a narrow 55-52 vote...
Nobody's home was ever so noisy. There are limbo, jazz and Gay Nineties joints scattered all along San Juan's quaint and narrow streets, Mexican, Cuban, Spanish and Italian nightclubs that rock nightly to trumpets and guitars. Last week Comic Jackie Mason held forth at the Caribe Hilton, Eartha Kitt was belting them out at the Americana, and strolling violins pierced the air in the Shalom Room of the Lee Hotel, which features its own synagogue. For the economy class, San Juan's hotel row has hatched two Red Rooster restaurants ("where corned beef and pastrami...
...slalom race, the competitor must ski down a narrow, sharply twisting course, closely defined by bamboo poles with colored flags, in as short a time as possible. An average course takes about a minute, and the fastest times are often within a few tenths of a second...
Objections can be raised to each of these proposals. Under A, although it avoids the difficulty of having to distinguish strictly between General Education and departmental courses, students might include some very narrow departmental courses in their General Education programs. B is sure to be arbitrary and hard to administer, assuming that a decision has to be made on every course in the Catalogue. C accepts in principle that General Education courses are distinctive and superior to departmental courses. D, in addition to the problems of B, allows only as an exception a type of program which for many students...
...Crimson quickly leaped to a 4-0 head, only to see Penn narrow the margin to 4-3. Either Dinny Adams at number four or Simpson at eight had to win the final matches if Harvard was to maintain its 36-game victory streak...