Word: narrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most part, is nearly back to normal in Havana. The tourists are slowly returning to the suffering hotels, as they realize that the fighting and danger are over. The exotic Cuban climate is as alluring as ever, the ubiquitous busses driven by mad geniuses called guageros zoom miraculously through narrow city streets, and the colorful street vendors tirelessly ply their wares upon bargain-hunting Americanos...
...celebrate our sixth anniversary on February 1). A lot of people who had never heard of the Brattle Theatre as an art movie theatre came to Cambridge to CDF performances and then returned to Cambridge to visit the Brattle. Excitement over the arts stimulates furthe interest; it is narrow-minded to suppose otherwise...
...head off massive antirecession pump-priming by the Government, the President took gentle pleasure in a sort of I-told-you-so: "The events of the last 18 months show again the considerable capacity of our economy to resist contractive influences and to hold a downturn within fairly narrow limits...
This becalming atmosphere reflected, in part, a change of heart among those outside powers concerned with Cyprus. Greece and Turkey, not on speaking terms two months ago, seem mutually appalled by disorder's reign, and are making private efforts to narrow their differences. Greece's Ambassador to Turkey has been shuttling between Athens and Ankara, setting the stage for a meeting in Paris this week between Turkish Foreign Minister Fatin Rustu Zorlu and Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza. Greece is moving closer to abandoning its cry of enosis (union with Greece) and Turkey its demand for partition...
...wall of water, with the weight of 230 million cu. ft. behind it, came surging down the narrow ravine, smashed into the village in a wave 20 ft. high. The stone bridge was swept away. The church was cut in two, and only the tower remained standing. All but 25 of the town's 150 houses were wiped...