Word: narrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fascinating and proscribed, have not been content to be stopped at the reference desk. Librarians occasionally find books in disarray on the X Cage floor, as if knocked loose by a stick or similar object. They hypothesize that some of the especially eager have reached through the narrow opening between the stack and the ceiling of a lower level, is reflected in the preponderance of articles about jobs and careers open to women, as well as in the underlying assumption in all these early publications that a Radcliffe magazine was interesting by the very fact of its existence. After...
...earlier acid-witty examination of the species. The Straight and Narrow Path (TIME, July 30, 1956), Novelist Tracy rapped the cassocked shanks of Ireland's parish priests. In her two current books, she has broadened her field of ire to include Ireland's impoverished gentry and the grey-mottled middle class, immersed in its misty yearnings for the days of Old Sinn Fein...
...fourth quarter dash broke up a frustrating afternoon of defensive football marked by aggressive lines and a fierce wind that stopped punts and hindered passing. Harvard maintained a narrow offensive superiority throughout the game, but had to rely on Swinford's interception and a 30-yard scoring dash by halfback John Shipman late in the fourth quarter to emerge on top of the scoring column...
...most telling criticism is, perhaps, Curley's persistently devisive influence on Boston. "Curley's stock in trade," Handlin wrote in his recently-published Al Smith and His America, "had been the appeal to the narrow clannishness of his group. Unlike Smith he had consistently labored to widen rather than to bridge the differences between the Irish and their fellow citizens...
...Polish students I taught were by no means narrow-minded and hag-ridden by doctrine," he noted. "In fact, one of them, with no formal education in English, had learned enough of the language through radio broadcasts and later by his own interest to deliver a graduate school seminar in English at the end of his stay...