Word: narrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because I am satisfied that the danger of direct attack on NATO countries is now very remote. What might be called the European test match can be postponed indefinitely [although] there may be village cricket elsewhere in the world," Monty explained. "The 1949 conception of NATO is now too narrow. Its members have got to look outwards at the world and not just inwards at their own parish pumps...
...prosperity party rather than Republicans (proDemocratic: 30%; pro-Republican: 25%). The G.O.P. also faces a mathematical disadvantage in next year's congressional elections. Of 32 Senate seats up, five are safely occupied by Southern Democrats, eight safely occupied by Republicans, and 13 occupied by Republicans who won by narrow margins last time around and will have tough campaigns...
...were "utterly bored." This week Thomas put U.S. viewers to the test with the first of seven new color travelogues on CBS. Gleeful headhunters waded shoulder-high in scummy New Guinea swamps to catch crocodiles with their bare hands; the barebreasted "debutantes of Kambaramba" skimmed along opal waters in narrow canoes at breathtaking speeds, and Headline-Hunter Thomas appeared every few feet to remind viewers of the "increasing perils." There were hackle-raising scenes of wizened, bedizened village elders carving tribal designs into the backs of young boys in manhood initiation rites, and, water-borne again, Lowell waving "Hi, there...
Rather than being narrow, classical civilization extended for fifteen hundred years, included two basic literary tongues and the basic thought of almost every every sphere of human knowledge, and has left a profound imprint on all succeeding cultures. Both modern democracy and Marxist communism have their theoretical origins in classical thought...
Still in the running after yesterday's narrow win over Brown, Harvard has one chance for supremacy in the Ivy soccer league, which depends, ironically, on Yale. Should the indifferent Bulldog strength galvanize today in a victory against first-place Princeton, and then fall gracefully apart next week, Harvard will win a race they came close-to losing at Brown...