Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard cross country team nosed out a strong Brown team, 25-30, for its third straight victory in what now promises to be an unbeaten season. The Crimson's narrow win was predicted, but a few surprises were needed to bring...
...fiery revolutionary in his youth, Betancourt won the undying hatred of many conservatives and unreconstructed military men. As a more moderate reformer and courageous anti-Communist in his later years, he has earned himself an equal number of enemies from the left. Among his many narrow escapes...
...collateral branches are like residential side streets-little used when the through roads are open. Unfortunately, it is immediately after an attack that the heart is least able to use the side-street arteries: the blood pressure is low, and it takes above-normal pressure to open promptly the narrow, neglected collaterals. The time to do this, Dr. Jacobey concluded, is in the intervals (diastole) between heart contractions...
...heroes of modern fiction have been as unlucky in love as John Blaydon. In two previously published books (Through Streets Broad and Narrow, In the Time of Greenbloom) chronicling various periods of John's life, he has consistently lost the girls he loves. In this third volume of the Blaydon family saga, John is beat out again, and this time by his dashing older brother, David. When Giselle, who is French and flighty, seems ready to return to his arms from her fling with Big Brother, John tells her pettishly: "I hate eating from dirty plates." Giselle responds...
...present the only major victims are the ignorant and apathetic consumer and the still reasonably vigorous economy. But one wonders how long the federal government can afford to function in such a narrow-minded, rigid, and arbitrary...