Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the three Tory successes were impressive, the Laborites managed to narrow the Conservative 1959 margins of victory: from 7,962 to 2,459 in Bury St. Edmunds, from 3,838 to 1,670 in Devizes, and from 12,792 to 6,064 in Winchester. London's bookmakers made only a minor change in their forecast for the general election in October; they dropped the odds a point, still favoring Labor, 3-1. But the Tories felt more hopeful than they had in months. A sizable number of voters had, after all, accepted the Tory line, which essentially came...
...until John Foster Dulles withdrew American aid, the project is being built largely by Russian engineers and money. When the $1 billion dam is completed in 1970, a 300-mile-long reservoir-dubbed Lake Nasser, of course -will add 2,000,000 green acres to Egypt's narrow thread of 6,000,000 acres of arable land. In a nation only a third larger than Texas and quite a bit bleaker, that is a considerable expansion, even if it will not by itself cure Egypt's terrible poverty. Egypt's 27 million inhabitants-twice as many...
...Britain's Graham Hill, 35: the Grand Prix of Monaco, first race counting toward the world driving championship. Urging his B.R.M. into the lead on the 53rd lap, the mustachioed Hill zipped through Monte Carlo's narrow streets at a record average of 72.6 m.p.h. to beat the U.S.'s Richie Ginther by one lap and win the 195-mile race for the second straight year. Scotland's Jimmy Clark, the 1963 champion, was forced to abandon his Lotus when it lost oil pressure six miles from the finish...
Outside, a narrow raised garden will surround the building, leading, in Disneyland fashion, past a small orchard and through a miniature woodland of birches and ferns. The front entrance area, facing Shepard Street, will be landscaped in grass and concrete, and enclosed by a high wall alternating sections of brick with wrought iron bars...
...Board's report said that granting the variance would be "injurious to the neighborhod and detrimental to the public welfare by inhibiting passage and further complicating the traffic problems of an already congested narrow street...