Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Judge is also at home on water. Once Lyndon developed a craving for a cruise up the narrow, treacherous Llano River on a winter night so pitch-dark that Moursund stepped right off the end of the pier into hip-deep water. Yet A. W. took the wheel of the cruiser, while Lyndon unconcernedly ate shrimp in the cabin below. Said Johnson: "He'll get us there. I wouldn't trust anybody else...
...fundamentalist Buddhists stuck to Buddha's narrow, escapist but arduous path and came to be known, to their distaste, as the Hinayana, or "lesser chariot." They prefer the name Theravada, or "doctrine of the elders." The "greater chariot," or Mahayana, branch attempted to enlarge and socialize the Middle Way. Their Buddha became less the example who must be emulated, more the savior who had mystically improved the lot of all mankind. By giving nearly equal weight to concern for others and to withdrawal for the self, Mahayana provided a platform for political engagement as Theravada could...
...modern technique, or the elan of apres ski--three of the most rewarding aspects of the sport. The parallel christie is at once more attractive, more fun, and less dangerous than the stem turn; it facilitates controlled skiing on steep slopes as well as quick linked turns on narrow trails...
...Seats in Sever 11 are so narrow that students in English 115 have to lean Chaucer's Works on one neighbor's elbow and notebooks on the opposite neighbor's Chaucer book...
Silver finds many northerners as narrow-minded as any Southern segregationist, and he berated last night's audience for "blaming Harlem hoodlumism on environment, which is right, but refusing to find environment behind the poor Klansman who burns churches...