Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first sight," concedes Jane's in an editorial foreword, the Soviet navy "appears to be poised for control of all ingress and egress about narrow waters." But Jane's detects a "subtlety not generally appreciated by laymen. Most recent Soviet warships were apparently designed for a self-sufficient limited role of being able to reply to any attack made on them rather than to pose an attitude of strike action...
Lucky Devil. By all meteorological reckoning, the worst rainy season in years should have tapered off by now, permitting the sun to steam dry the tangled greenery that stands high and thick over Nigeria's equatorial south. But on the narrow dirt roads leading to Umuahia, the deluge stopped as if to tease, then resumed this week in full force...
Mexican Standoff. And yet, what too many of his critics have failed to see is that this paragon late of the Pentagon is far from being narrow or insensitive. He can stress the excellent record of the Defense Department on open housing. He can enlarge his concept of security to include economic as well as military values. He knows that "solid friends and implacable enemies are no longer so easy to label"-that tags like "free world," "Communism," and "Iron Curtain" are becoming "increasingly inadequate." He steadily argues that there can be no true security for the world as long...
After a spotty 8-3 opening victory over Tufts, the Harvard soccer team goes to Storrs today to battle a potentially potent University of Connecticut team. UConn is generally in the thick of the fight for an NCAA bid, and, off a narrow loss to last year's New England champion, Vermont, figures to be solid again...
...vain, the commission argued that although any number of newspapers may be published, broadcast frequencies are limited in number, and those licensed to use them could, if not regulated, offer the public only a narrow range of opinion. But the court insisted that both rules were not only too vague, but could inhibit stations from airing controversy. As for the argument that radio-TV might not offer enough diversity of opinion, the court added almost gratuitously: "In most major metropolitan areas there are several times as many radio and television stations as newspapers...