Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political appeal was such that in 1956, when Democratic Presidential Nominee Adlai Stevenson threw the vice presidential nomination up for grabs at the party's Chicago convention, Kennedy made a wildly disorganized eleventh-hour attempt for the prize. He lost to Estes Kefauver, but by so narrow a margin that it set the Kennedyites to thinking really Big Thoughts. Recalls Larry O'Brien (who had not even attended the convention): "After that convention, we began to realize that Kennedy could...
...stood to reason that, considering how small the landing party was, the success of the operation would hinge on the B-26s' controlling the air over the beachhead. And the margins that the planners accepted were narrow to begin with. The B-26s were to operate from a staging base in a Central American country more than 500 miles from Cuba. The round trip would take better than six hours, and that would leave the planes with fuel for only 45 minutes of action over Cuba. In contrast, Castro's air force could be over the beachhead...
Heading a five-man team financed by the Arctic Institute of North America, Columbia's Ralph S. Solecki focused his search on a desolate coastal plain 300 miles east of Point Barrow. There, he reasoned, a narrow coastal strip protected by mountains suggested a natural corridor for early nomads. "Like modern campers," said Solecki, "they liked to set themselves up in well-drained spots sheltered from the wind...
...antibiotics cited in the Justice Department suit are aureomycin, terramycin' and tetracycline-three broad-spectrum antibiotics, so called because, unlike narrow-spectrum penicillin, they treat a wide variety of diseases. Until 1953, according to Government charges, Cyanamid's aureomycin and Pfizer's terramycin accounted for 92% of the broad-spectrum market. At that point, all three defendants, plus New York's Heyden Chemical Co. (now Heyden-Newport Chemical Corp.), applied for patent rights on tetracycline, a new antibiotic made with an aureomycin base...
Novelist Honor Tracy understands Chaplin's kind of reality, as she has amply demonstrated in two previous acid-witty novels. The Straight and Narrow Path and The Prospects Are Pleasing. The grand lady in both of them was Ireland-surprisingly so because the author is herself part Irish. In A Season of Mists, She Who Gets Slapped is a more traditional Irish target-the English landed gentry...