Word: narrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Burning Tree more than anybody else on Capitol Hill) became majority leader for the second time after Eisenhower's 1952 victory. His party loyalty code soon led him to support policies of the middle-roading Administration, e.g., public housing, reciprocal trade, foreign aid, with the same narrow-eyed gung ho he had mustered against the same programs for 17 years. He did not flinch. "Damn you, you've got to be with us on this one," he twanged at reluctant colleagues. "The President needs your support-and so do I." Many an Administration measure squeaked through because...
...recent jeep ride over the narrow new roads that lead part way across the roof of the world, TIME'S New Delhi Correspondent Donald Connery bounced his way to the dot on the map called Sikkim, a never-never land where women sit by the side of the road, breaking big rocks with little hammers, and watch the Mercedes go by. For his report, see FOREIGN NEWS, Land of the Uphill Devils...
...microbes do not come from Boston city water, the researchers established: that contains enough chlorine to kill them off. And ice made from this water under proper conditions is equally safe. The trouble originates right in the hospitals. Most of them have carafes with narrow necks, so they cannot be properly cleaned without a brush-and not a single bottle brush was found. Most carafes are made of materials that will not stand sterilization by heat, and no hospital specified disinfection as part of the cleaning routine. In one-third of the hospitals the carafes were "cleaned" in the utility...
...house's interior immediately suggests the unusual. There are nineteen oddly proportioned rooms within this seemingly small frame. The rambling corridors are somewhat analogous to the canals of Venice. They become alternately wide and narrow as they wind. They lower a few steps, then rise a few steps. They give way to an immense hall when one least expects it, and to a glass-encased balcony which is still stranger and more intruiging...
...Kansas' Sixth District, where the margin of Incumbent Republican Wint Smith over Democrat Elmo J. Mahoney was so narrow (233 votes) that the committee recommended an investigation of Mahoney's charge of irregularities...