Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...century the school allowed its all-white student body to ignore the winds of U.S. constitutional change, while steeping itself almost entirely in local law, customs and politics. Ole Miss law graduates emerged with their Deep South views untouched, after which they ran the state with an isolated narrow-mindedness that has mired Mississippi in racial tragedy...
South Viet Nam's constitutional assembly campaign was in full swing last week amid a blaze of huge red and yellow Vietnamese flags and a blare of sound trucks. Up and down the narrow nation, posters blossomed bearing the arcane symbols of the candidates' slates: the Lamp, the Lotus Blossom, the Cock & Hand, the Woman with a Basket. Declared banners and placards in Sai gon: TO VOTE IS TO BEGIN BUILDING DEMOCRACY...
...Panhandle, located immediately above the demilitarized zone that marks the border with South Viet Nam, is a long, narrow strip wedged between the mountains and the sea. Lined by roads, railroads and inland waterways, it is Ho's principal supply route to the Communist troops in the south. It is also the prime target of U.S. air raiders, whose goal is to stop the supplies...
...coastal capital of French Somaliland (pop. 100,000), a tiny toothmark of rocks, desert and hot wind located on the African side of the mouth of the Red Sea. Its only notable product is a wine concocted from the doom palm, its principal source of income a narrow-gauge railway from Ethiopia to Djibouti's excellent port. Offered its independence in 1958, French Somaliland turned it down, and is now the only French colony in Africa. Three-quarters of the voters in a national plebiscite elected to retain their ties with France...
...independence, Bourguiba abolished polygamy, made it harder for men to get divorces, and gave women their first, real legal rights. He looked on approvingly as the Moslem veil began to vanish, and he has shown no objection to the new garb of girls who parade gracefully through the narrow streets of Tunis in brief, airy frocks. But one has to draw the line somewhere, and last week Bourguiba did-just below the knee-by banning the thigh-high miniskirt...