Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...narrow ledge of the high Andes, 75 miles northwest of the ancient Inca capital of Cuzco, a handful of Peruvians and Americans met last week to dedicate a bronze plaque to U.S. Archaeologist Hiram Bingham and the mysterious lost city he discovered 50 years ago. Some experts believe that parts of the city, which Bingham named Machu Picchu (Old Peak), are 60 centuries old, which would make it 1,000 years older than ancient Babylon. More recently, if its ruins are interpreted correctly, it was at once an impregnable fortress and a majestic royal capital of an exiled civilization...
With an ignominious "L" (for learner) adjoining its New Jersey license plates, a beige, cruiser-sized 1960 Cadillac painfully navigated the narrow lanes of ancient Sevenoaks, Kent, 20 miles from London. At the helm having a go at the British driver's test: the richest American, Oilman J. Paul Getty, 68, a 50-year road veteran who had let his U.S. license expire. After successfully wheeling through the test despite the handicap of his outsized chariot, the thriftiest of billionaires solemnly explained: "I drove this because it's the only...
...tends to flout the trends, does away with the bulky silhouette; although he concentrates less on S-lines than his colleagues, Bohan's fashions are the tightest, slenderest, most feminine of all. His decidedly youthful designs feature slim, high-bosomed bodices, gently flared skirts, wide cinch-belts and narrow shoulders...
...narrow dirt runway, the pencil-thin Negro poises disjointedly, like a puppet whose strings are loose. Then he prances forward, flapping his skinny arms and kicking his knees almost to his chest. Suddenly, his left foot slams savagely into the take-off board. His eyes bug, his face contorts, and his legs pedal furiously as he springs into trajectory. His left hand claws upward through the air as though searching for something...
...baseball umpire. Fortnight ago, when he assigned 136 lbs.-heaviest handicap of his career-to the speedy, four-year-old gelding, Kelso, in the $112,800 Brooklyn Handicap, Trotter said calmly: "I expect complaints." None came-although Kelso had to spurt from behind to eke out a narrow, 1¼-length victory. "He's one of the great ones," said Handicapper Trotter after the race. "No question about it." Then Trotter added: "Of course, if I have to weight him again, he'll have to pick up a few more pounds...