Word: narrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President: "There has not been any detectable progress that to my mind would justify the holding of a summit meeting." He added that he would expect the foreign ministers to produce an agreed statement so that "we could see where we are apart on issues, whether we could narrow these gaps, and whether we could define the areas where it would be worthwhile for us to confer ... a decent working paper...
...long time in the once great kingdom of Spain. Left behind by the great revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries, Spain moved from feudalism to confused socialism to fascism through one of history's most destructive civil wars. After that came the mismanagement and the narrow imagination of Francisco Franco's regime. Spain was near economic disaster when U.S. aid began to arrive...
...years ago last week, the word sped swiftly through Shanghai: "Palu tao-le [The Communists have come] " Along the narrow streets, through the scrupulously landscaped European concessions, onto the wide Bund fronting the busy Whangpoo River, swarmed the small neat soldiers in mustard-colored uniforms. The uneasy Red conquerors turned a startled gaze on the Western-style skyscrapers, the banks and private clubs and cabarets of the greatest city on the Asian mainland (pop. 5,000,000), which had just fallen to them without a fight...
Torroja (pronounced toe-roe-ha) has long been recognized within a narrow professional circle as a creative engineer whose breathtaking structures are rivaled in Europe only by those of Italy's Pier Luigi Nervi. Even the late Frank Lloyd Wright doffed his porkpie in salute, said, "He has expressed the principles of organic construction better than any engineer I know...
Surprisingly, Geneva turned out to be a cause for pessimism perhaps, but not for cynicism. The proposals put down jointly by the West-the product of countless study papers, countless conferences-proved neither unyielding nor narrow. They took account of what was legitimate in Russia's past positions on Europe; they moved away from the position, no longer tenable after 14 years of peace, that the conquerors could still impose on Germany the shape of its future government. They gave the U.S.S.R. the chance to prove what it professed to desire. In their careful phrasing and attention to detail...