Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...avoid too-narrow limits, students would be able to choose their courses from an approved list of nearly 30 offerings. The only really restrictive ruling would require that after the fall of 1951 three of the required six courses must come from the elementary GE list--which even now provides 11 choices in social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences. The remaining credits would be elected from either the upper-group GE list or a bumper crop of departmental courses. In every step of the actual framing, the Committee has been careful to allow leeway-- even to the inclusion...
...Narrow Edge. Acheson handled a barrage of questions with firmness and relaxed good, humor. When a question was too technical, he was quick to admit that the questioner had gone over the narrow edge of his knowledge. A reporter pointed out that some "leading Republican papers" had inferred that "there has been some injury to bipartisan foreign policy." Acheson reddened slightly, and smiled. Was he looking at the injury? Acheson inquired amiably. The newsmen laughed, and the reporter backtracked hastily: "It was their insinuation, not mine." Well, said Acheson, he would do everything he could to keep the most bipartisan...
Thirty-seven years ago, in the Hunan Provincial Library at Changsha, a 19-year-old farm lad for the first time in his narrow life looked at a map of the world. He studied it, as he later recalled, with great interest. Last week, the farm lad was redrawing that map with an iron pen dipped in blood. Mao Tse-tung was adding China to the domain of world Communism...
...They are no more than families in flight. Doctors and lawyers, Zeiss technicians and garage mechanics, slave miners and girls tired of being raped in Soviet mess halls-they have nothing in common but their flight from evil and terror, from the lie and the lash. Down their dark, narrow corridor they come, heading, half drunk with fear, toward a single, small light...
...line the walls of many a South-of-France chapel. In each picture the Virgin Mary or a patron saint also appears, serene and smiling above the disaster. Done in the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries, the paintings are "ex-votos" (thank offerings) by parishioners who were grateful for narrow escapes from death. No one knows who painted most of them; the donor-not the artist-usually got his name in the corner...