Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...split second pushing him closer to the limit of adhesion. In Moss's pit, dockers exchanged glances, and tension killed conversation. Murmured a mechanic, "He's pushing it." Past the Limit. On the 34th lap, Moss clipped his time to 1 min. 22.2 sec., flashing around the narrow, twisting course at a fantastic average speed of 105 m.p.h...
...Egyptian concubine Hagar, whose son "shall not be heir with my son Isaac." On the assumption that no Egyptian can be white. Mrs. Gaillot argues that this passage "surely must mean no playing together in school." Biblical scholars dismiss her interpretation of this and other texts as ridiculously narrow-minded...
...American lines. Oldsmobile's is a coupe called Jetfire, with bucket seats in front and a turbosupercharged high-compression engine capable of delivering 215 horses (price: $3,039). Stude-baker's new Avanti (TIME, April 13) is a rakish restyling from inside out designed to narrow still further the gap between the family sedan and the gran turismo...
...industry cannot offset higher costs with higher prices. Wall Street sees even slimmer profit margins in the long run. And since stock prices in the end reflect the profit potential of industry, some analysts argue that the market will inevitably have to go down if profit margins continue to narrow...
...picture begins, the family arrives for the summer at its seaside estate in California. Father Harrington (Jack Hawkins), an immigrant boy who came up the hard way in the furniture business, is a narrow-eyed, loud-mouthed merchant who slaps his lips together when he eats, picks his teeth elaborately when he's done, thinks TV is the greatest thing since the sofabed, and looks uneasy when people talk about Sophocles' Electra-he figures maybe it's an airplane or something. Mother Harrington (Rosalind Russell) is a charming monster of self-deception who married father because...