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Word: narrowness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME'S Vienna Bureau Chief Peter Forbath, who reported for the earlier cover and is a student of Czechoslovak character and politics, joined up with a massive Russian army convoy of heavy vehicles, field pieces and armored personnel carriers moving down the narrow roads in the foothills of the High Tatra Mountains. At their secluded camp sites in the pine-tree forests, Forbath chatted with Russian soldiers and officers, who talked amiably about their mission and offered him tea. While some other correspondents were running into trouble with both the Russian and the Czechoslovak authorities, Forbath was not prevented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Aug. 2, 1968 | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

Last year, for example, over one-fifth of the 2,000 soldiers and 1,800 sailors in the flotilla were killed or wounded as their craft, weaving through the narrow canals, were targets for snipers and mortar and rocket attacks. Navy personnel, who regularly man the Delta craft, stand a 70% chance of being wounded during a year's service with the Riverine Force. The Aid Boats, bristling with machine guns, grenade launchers and a cannon, are able to go to the rescue. Wounded are picked up and shuttled away from enemy fire, then quickly evacuated on "dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: A Pad That Floats | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

...stand-by credits to defend it. A Daily Mail poll showed that the massive Tory lead of 23.5% in April had been cut to 13.5% this month. Then, last week, Labor scored its second parliamentary by-election victory in five weeks. The win at Caerphilly, Wales, was narrow for a traditionally safe Labor seat, but it at least maintained Wilson's 72-seat edge over the Tories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Wilson Bounces Back | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

...took two hours that night with periodic tactful reassurances from the MC about how the Who "were temperamental like all great artists," and how they had decided to rest a little in New York, etc. But finally the amplifiers did begin to appear on stage, narrow amps and big ones, amps of all shapes and sizes, 18 of them in all waiting like faithful dogs for their masters to come and re-vitalize them. The lights blackened and the Who sprinted...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: The Who | 7/23/1968 | See Source »

...these coherent qualities that make laser light so narrow-beamed, so easy to focus and so powerful. Laser light can be focused into a spot with a diameter of only I/10,000th of a centimeter. Concentrated into so small an area, it burns billions of times brighter than the sun's surface. Instead of rapidly diverging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Power & Potential of Pure Light | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

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