Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Narrow Shoulders. Though Austria had a red-black coalition from 1945 until last spring, and a number of European countries have had wartime national-unity governments, the grand coalition is a totally new departure for West Germany. It naturally raised some apprehensions, both in Germany and abroad, about the fate of democracy without an effective parliamentary opposition. The burden of scrutinizing the government's actions will fall on the narrow shoulders of the Free Democrat delegation...
...Instead of narrow-mindedly designing planned obsolescence and physical deterioration into manufactured goods to maintain the growth of our economy, why can't we invest a fraction more of our great personal and corporate income in the futures of the underprivileged in this country and in some of the underdeveloped nations...
...agreed that the G.O.P.'s first task is to erase the aura of narrow exclusivity that it acquired during Barry Goldwater's 1964 campaign, and to establish itself as a broad-based party with ample room for ideological differences and leaders as far apart as a Rockefeller and California's Governor-elect Ronald Reagan. If that prescription seemed predictable, they did not agree on it without engaging in some caustic casuistry that did little to help the party or the disputants...
After hearing Dr. Jackson's report, the University of Cincinnati's Dr. Albert B. Sabin, developer of oral polio vaccine, declared: "There is great concern about the large-scale use of this drug because its margin of safety is very, very narrow...
...York Daily News, biggest paper in the U.S., with a current circulation of 2,000,000 daily, 3,000,000 Sunday; of a brain tumor; in Manhattan. He once defined what made his tabloid sell: "The real appeal of the News is that it lights up the narrow routine of millions of lives with gleams from the great outside. Its readers thrill with second-hand emotion they will never know: they shudder from crimes they will never commit, they quiver with courage that shall never be theirs...