Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trespass charges at a restaurant and an amusement park in Maryland, lunch counters in South Carolina and Florida. Since a ban on discrimination in public accommodations is part of President Kennedy's pending civil rights bill, the court may sidestep the broad issue, overrule the trespass convictions on narrow grounds...
...Stinnes Personally Inc." to show his independence to the world. But Hugo depended too much on the memory of his father, and drove himself relentlessly to match old Hugo's accomplishment. Like Borgward and Schlieker, he expanded too fast just for the sake of expansion, building on too narrow a capital base and not watching his profits closely enough...
...from a dirty stream into miraculously clean holy water. A father reported that she cured his daughter's acne; two little boys who were mutes were taken to her, have since started uttering sounds. As word of her feats spread, Buddhist faithful by the thousands began jamming the narrow, rain-soaked paths leading to the mountaintop. Taking no chances that the pilgrims might turn into antigovernment demonstrators, authorities called out troops, banned the processions on grounds that the trails were too dangerous. "The Saint" has since disappeared-but she has assertedly promised to reappear on six other mountaintops...
...Sussex. "This is rightly called an explosion. Things will never be the same again." From Cape Wrath to Land's End, Britons are avid to explode. "We are in a mess about our education," says Sir Charles Snow. "There is too little of it. It is too narrow both in spread and concept." Under fire is the sheltered snobbery of Oxford and Cambridge, whose 18,000 students so easily inherit British power and glory. Equally resented is the impersonal lecture system at the 19th century urban redbrick universities, whose 46,000 students often feel like social second-raters. Higher...
...shortsighted sportswriter a few months back dared to ink the late New York Yankees with Sonny Liston in some absurd metaphor about twin colossuses astride the narrow world of sports...