Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drawing a pencil line down the middle of the strip. The pencil line covers both sides of the paper and returns to the starting point without the strip's being turned over. When cut along the pencil line, the paper forms not two loops but one long, narrow loop. Cut once more in the same manner, the narrow loop becomes two interlocked loops...
...crowd closed in crying, "Take it back. Go home!," Mueller sat still. "Tip him over!" came the roar. A few sheriff's deputies and state troopers were on hand by then. They cleared a narrow path through the mass, ordered the gates opened. Mueller inched forward. Men in the crowd were pressed tight between the slowly moving truck and a fence. Suddenly, two men-Melvin Cummings, 43, and Howard Falk, 64 -fell beneath the truck's rear wheels. Both were killed...
...Narrow as an arrow but fetching as an etching, Geraldine Chaplin, 20, Charlie's unmatched little girl, paired herself off with British Actor Richard Johnson, 36, for a romp about Chilham Castle in England, where Johnson is playing Kim Novak's leading man in Paramount's production of The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders. "I think he's the most marvelous man," Geraldine rejoiced. "We're very fond of each other-it's obvious, isn't it?" Johnson responded. But, he added, there is "no question of an engagement-at least at this...
...peers out from under it. "Let's go!" a voice cries hoarsely, and in rapid succession three men (Maximilian Schell, Peter Ustinov, Gilles Segal) leap out of the pit, run crouching to a door, dart stealthily across a large dim room and go leaping up a narrow stair within the walls. Once on the roof, they make a risky traverse and arrive, with twilight coming on, at the brink of a sheer parapet interrupted here and there with iron-barred apertures...
...center. And many more have come down, for "transitory" is Tokyo's middle name. Even Frank Lloyd Wright's earthquake-proof Imperial Hotel, built in 1922, is threatened with replacement by a highrise, moneymaking skyscraper. But most of the buildings razed have been scabrous shanties along the narrow, unnamed streets trod by geta-ed feet which comprise most of Tokyo's byways. The new roads-$470 million worth of them-will ease the burden of Tokyo's cab drivers, who have a hard time finding their way around and usually require written directions (in Japanese...