Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arim. The Sabbath approaches. Until sundown Saturday, no one may work, smoke, cook a meal, answer a telephone, or carry money on his person. Yellow signs outside the quarter warn that on the Sabbath only emergency vehicles, such as fire trucks and ambulances, will be allowed on its narrow, cobbled streets. Generally, not a car is moving and quiet reigns...
...television address to the nation, John F. Kennedy made efforts to reply in advance to arguments that may be raised when the pact comes before the U.S. Senate for ratification. In fact, there seems little danger that the treaty will be rejected, or will even have a narrow escape. Only a few Senators-Arizona's Barry Goldwater among them-are clearly opposed to it. Some other Senators seem wary, ineluding Georgia's Richard Russell, head of the Armed Services Committee and leader of the Southerners, and Iowa's Bourke Hickenlooper, who wields strong influence among Midwestern Republicans...
...actress wife travel, they still go by the book. Their favorite hotel in Nice is "a place where we eat breakfast in the kitchen in bathrobe and slippers. And the guests are French." Frommer's prose often pauses for such provocative asides as "Here the beds are somewhat narrow and suitable only for couples, to whom this book sends best wishes" or "I like the hotels on Rue de Buci, a block away from all the existential activity." Of Rome's Pensione Eureka he says: "Its star attraction is impish Mrs. Imperoli, a dead ringer for Romy Schneider...
...swimming trunks, see J. Press, 82 Mt. Auburn. Both boxer and narrow leg styles in patchwork or plain madras are now reduced 20 per cent...
...most widely read Jewish thinker of the century, although there are plenty of Catholics and Protestants who are more enthusiastic about his work than some of his fellow Jews are. Since he does not follow the detailed rules of the Halakah in his daily life and scorns the narrow legalism of the Talmudic law, he has been mercilessly criticized by Orthodox rabbis as a heretic. Some Reform Jews, on the other hand, feel that Buber has romanticized the Hasidic movement and overemphasized the importance of this unique sect for modern Judaism. And even among Jews who accept the principles...