Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ungar lost by a very narrow margin, but he still amassed an impressive number of votes. His loss was not a real defeat since in this context the incumbent had an overwhelming advantage. He was a resident of long standing and very well-known in the community. Also, it is primarily people beholden to the incumbent for a job or some other favor who vote in the primaries. This is especially true on a rainy day, and that June day it poured. Finally, the neighborhood was staunchly conservative and unlikely to view Lindsay-flavor Republicanism favorably. Therefore Lindsay workers carefully...
...Latter Mistrust. It was not done out of admiration for De Gaulle, whose narrow nationalism der Alte found an emotional atavism. Rather, in the absence of genuine European unity, Adenauer fell back on the keystone relationship of France and Germany for the well-being of Europe. And he kept right on working for the larger goal of a united Europe after his retirement as Chancellor. In the last month of his life, before he came down fatally with flu and bronchitis, Adenauer met with Chancellor Kiesinger and "urgently impressed on me," said Kiesinger, "this great concern of his life...
...majority of the 76-member body of lay and clerical experts had indeed agreed that it was time for a change. And the liberals wisely based their argument, for the most part, not on the impersonal and narrow ground of population control, but on the contention that contraception can contribute to a happier married life. "If they are to observe and cultivate all the essential val ues of marriage," said the majority report, "married people need decent and human means for the regulation of conception. They should be able to expect the collaboration of all, especially from men of learning...
Bunting, a heavy hitter who stays in the lineup when he is not hurling, tied into Peters' first pitch in the bottom of the eighth to narrow the margin to 3-2. A single, a double, then a two-run double by Richie Brown produced the tying and winning runs...
...this manner, Reston feels that more people would be able to appreciate the narrow range of alternatives the President faces, and would be able to grasp the real options in what presently appears to be a meaningless gush of unrelated facts and personalities...