Word: narrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cycloserine, an antibiotic used against tuberculosis, has such a narrow safety margin that a slight overdose can cause grand mal seizures. It is also blamed for severe emotional reactions and is dangerous for patients with kidney damage...
Debate on the NSA Gray said, "has shown that the seeds of future leadership which looks beyond the narrow confines of the Yard and the Ivy League are still very much present at Harvard...
...scientists called it "an amazing feat," "a most tremendous achievement." Paris' Roman Catholic daily, La Croix, echoed: "The most prodigious event in history." India's Nehru called it a "tremendous triumph of modern science," wagged: "I understand it has strayed from the straight and narrow path. Nevertheless the fact that it has been sent out is another great advance." A Soviet official in London expressed "all good wishes...
...Narrow Margin. But the abolitionists railed louder than ever; pretty young Delegate June Hay derided the committee report as a mere excuse for Laborites who send their own children to private schools. Slyly, onetime Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell dug at Hugh Gaitskell and other private-school men among the platform-sitters : "I wish I had gone to one of these schools; there is no saying how far I would have gone...
...United Auto Workers. As expected, it was about the same as the pact between the U.A.W. and Ford (TIME, Sept. 29), a package of about 28? per hour in wage increases and fringe benefits. But there were some important differences. The U.A.W. won G.M.'s pledge to narrow differentials in wages between workers doing the same job in different G.M. plants, which, the U.A.W. says, now range up to 27? an hour. G.M.'s top bargainer, Louis G. Seaton, beat down a U.A.W. demand for a bigger boost in short-week benefits than it got from Ford...