Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...narrow vote of 62-58, Gizenga's slate of seven candidates swept every office in the Chamber of Representatives; in the Senate, Gizenga supporters won five of the seven elective posts. The Congo's normally inert President Joseph Kasavubu was sufficiently stung by this rebuff to crossly remind the legislators that, as chief of state, it was his responsibility to name a Premier-designate-a strong hint that his first choice would not be Gizenga...
...narrow Uruguayan peninsula separating the mouth of the River Plate from the Atlantic Ocean lies Punta del Este. a resort town that comes to life only in the South American summer. Last week the temperature hovered at 52° in the South American winter, but Punta del Este was hardly deserted. Platoons of security agents swarmed through the town, and squads of workmen were everywhere, repairing streets, painting walls, planting flowers...
...program also calls for stabilizing world market prices of the commodities on which many Latin American economies depend. It encourages setting up common markets to spur exports and thus production. It demands effective social reforms such as land reform and graduated income taxes that would help to narrow the all-too-wide gap between the indifferent rich and the suffering poor...
...content with destroying the barricades and breaking the Tunisian blockade, the French next day launched a full-scale attack on the town of Bizerte itself, which commands the narrow entrance to the Bay of Bizerte (see map). Rocket-carrying planes swiftly blasted out the Tunisians' few artillery posts. Tanks and tough paratroopers pushed into the city from the south; marines swarmed ashore on the harbor side in landing craft, as three French cruisers lurked offshore. The Tunisians fought raggedly through the streets, but they were no match for French striking power. Bizerte was quickly in French hands...
...German Artist." Nolde himself would have scorned such a simple pigeonhole. "Intellectuals and literati call me an expressionist," he once exploded. "I do not like this narrow classification. A German artist, that I am." Born Emil Hansen in the north Schleswig village of Nolde (he did not change his name until he married, at 34, in 1901), he identified himself with the bleak environment of north Germany, acquiring an outer taciturnity and an inner turbulence shared by those other brooding giants of the north: Norwegian Edvard Munch and Belgian Recluse James Ensor. As a peasant lad, Nolde was early given...