Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deferred in underdeveloped nations, where the Administration wants to encourage U.S. private investment. The Administration bill has three professed purposes: to clamp down on U.S. firms that channel their overseas earnings into foreign "tax havens," to slow the alleged "export of jobs" created by U.S. investment abroad, and to narrow the gap in the nation's balance of payments by restricting the outflow of U.S. investment capital...
...fingers go like narrow laughs...
...Freedom Rides--is largely dependent on white opinion in the North and South. The sit-ins were successful bets taken on white opinion--a winning bet, to be sure, but the movement depended on how whites would react. And the Negroes participating in the sit-ins were a narrow group of students and middle class Negroes. Martin Luther King has complained that Negro lower classes--especially tenant farmers and sharecroppers--are apathetic about civil rights and likely to remain so. They are hungry and in need, and getting them out of the South is a service to them...
Nature branded a curse on the Northeast. Except in a narrow coastal belt, rain is so scant that 87% of the area consists of parched, brown sertāo, a rolling hinterland matted with cactus-tough scrub where peasants hack at the hard soil with primitive hoes. Two months ago, the first rains in eight months brought a green fuzz to the sertāo. But drought had already ruined this year's crop of beans, corn and manioc-root flour, mainstays of the peasant diet. Famine swept the sertāo, sending thousands of camponeses to the towns...
Five Crimson golfers managed to break 80 on the narrow and twisting 6800-yard Cornell course as the team registered its eighth win of the season. At number one, Bruce Johnstone marked up his ninth individual victory of the year by nipping Jeff Pass 1 up on the eighteenth hole. Stan Abrams' string of 11 straight triumphs was ended as he bowed to Dave Hamilton in the number two slot by a margin...