Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vice President's ancestral village lies eight hours away from Athens over a narrow, bumpy country road. It sits in the sunshine on the western slopes of the Greek division of Peloponnesus, six hairpin curves above the ink blue Ionian Sea, an immaculate whitewash of stucco structures with red tile roofs...
...daughter-in-law of Slovenian descent. He did not openly court racist sentiment, but did concentrate on white audiences in the ethnic enclaves. Perk, said the Cleveland Plain Dealer, seemed to be campaigning for mayor of Prague or Warsaw. His tactics nearly worked. Stokes' victory was narrow, 3,700 votes out of a total of 239,000, but four years ago his plurality was only...
Besides Good, one other incumbent City Councillor Daniel J. Hayes Jr. failed to win re-election. Mahoney, also an incumbent, retained his seat by a narrow margin of some 80 votes. "Well, this one was a cliffhanger," he said...
...observers began analyzing the election returns, they seemed to agree on only one thing: the turnabout-achieved by only narrow margins in both races-reflected the popularity of individual CCA-endorsed candidates rather than any major increase in the CCA's overall voting strength. "Each [of the CCA councillors] made it on his own; they didn't run as a team," said one veteran city politician...
...Steep, narrow streets, wrinkled old Chinese selling vegetables, white matrons walking with their arms full of laundry, families of tourists admiring the shops and looking for a Chinese restaurant. People smile, stop and talk on the street; it is predictably peaceful. But in Portsmouth Square, 200 people mill around a rostrum. On the platform are an army bugler, a line of speakers and a big sign that says...