Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Club has never been one of my life's great desires." Said the Washington Post of the clubs: "They have injured themselves, their fellow members, the decent neighbors and their country. That's quite a package of damage to be achieved by one piece of petty parochialism, narrow racism, middle-class snobbery and blind prejudice...
...scaling down the war and that the U.S. should reciprocate by ending all bombing of North Viet Nam. The allied command insisted that the Communists had mere ly paused to regroup and resupply. Last week Hanoi ended the argument as Communist forces came out fighting the length of the narrow country, mounting as many as 50 coordinated assaults in a single day. Even so, the Communist campaign was weaker than the Tet offensive or the second wave of at tacks in May and June. As a result, the allies were reluctant to identify the new push as the long-expected...
...unexploded British grenades fitted with timing devices and hidden in garbage cans were also discovered by the Israelis. Chanting "To the Old City!" "Kill them, kill them!", more than 100 Israeli youths swarmed through the narrow, twisting streets of the Arab quarter on a vengeful rampage...
Privileged Powers. The question was whether, despite the enthusiasm that his visit evoked, Paul would be able to narrow the tremendous differences that exist between Latin America's two principal blocks of Catholics-the peasants living in subhuman conditions and the ruling elite. These two forces have been in conflict ever since the continent was colonized, and their struggles have usually been resolved either by the aristocracy's maintaining power through the military or by the peasants' destroying the landed oligarchy through bloody revolution, as occurred in Mexico early this century and later in Bolivia...
...kill the sonofabitch if I ever found out he was smoking pot," says a Manhattan father. Says his 16-year-old son, who has been using marijuana for a year: "I smoke pot because it makes the world a beautiful place instead of a place filled with narrow-minded bigots like my father...