Word: narrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charges Narrow Field...
...revolt in Lhasa that had served to cover the God-King's escape. Point-blank artillery fire drove diehard lamas from the Norbulingka, summer palace on the city's outskirts. Red infantrymen surged into the vast warrens of the Potala winter palace, rounded up defiant monks in narrow passages and dark rooms where flickering butter lamps made Tibet's grotesque gods and demons seem to caper on the walls. The corpses of hundreds of slain Lhasans lay in the streets and parks of the city, from the gutted medical college on Chakpori hill to the barricaded main...
...capricious unless the physician uses them with special understanding." But he insisted that DBI, given along with reduced doses of insulin, has helped some unstable diabetics to lead a more normal life than they could when they took insulin several times a day. Main trouble: there is a narrow margin of safety between the DBI dose needed to control the blood sugar level and the dose that may produce side effects, so treatment in severe cases should begin in a hospital...
Despite intermittent rain, the playing field was in surprisingly fine condition, though poorly marked off and too narrow for the Crimson backs to show off their superior speed. Many times a runner, almost in the clear as he sliced around the opponents' wing, would be forced out of bounds into the milling throng of spectators...
...appeal for an "expert potholer, less than 5 ft. tall, weighing under 112 Ibs., exceptionally athletic and with unlimited courage," June Bailey, 18, appeared, a slip of a girl wearing a red helmet and red sweater. She was instructed to break both of Moss's collarbones to help narrow the width of his shoulders and perhaps free him. But before she could enter the shaft, the trapped man had died. "It was a horrid moment," said Flight Lieut. Carter. "There was no sound as I hung my head down the shaft, and I knew he was gone at last...