Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week some visitors were crossing Cabot Strait, 100 miles by ferry to Port aux Basques, where they took the 547-mile-long narrow-gauge railway to the capital city of St. John's (pop. 56,000). Others flew to Gander Airport. Still others sailed through the narrow channel that leads to St. John's landlocked harbor...
...discuss a final peace settlement until Israel agreed to accept a large proportion of the Arab refugees. The Israelis resisted all attempts to get them to take back the refugees, finally offered a compromise under which they would accept 230,000 of them provided Egypt would cede the narrow 25-mile-long coastal area around Gaza. (Nobody has even got around to making a close estimate of how many refugees are involved; guesses vary from...
Fifteen years after he had married Ellen, Jack McCloy, a U.S. Assistant Secretary of War, heard Lieut. General Courtney Hodges explain that he was about to shell Rothenburg. McCloy had visited Rothenburg and he remembered it -the narrow cobbled streets within the wall, the Gothic spires, the Renaissance houses. "Do you have to destroy Rothenburg?" he pleaded. "Maybe not," said Hodges. "Maybe the town can be induced to surrender." Negotiations were begun. Next day Rothenburg surrendered, and in 1948, out of gratitude, it made Jack McCloy an honorary citizen...
...over yet. Still out on Medinah's tough, narrow-waisted fairways, and needing only even pars to tie Middlecoff was Sam Snead. The grapevine buzzed that Snead was hot. "He's burning up that last nine," snapped Middlecoff nervously. "I'm betting I won't win. I'll bet you $10 right now that Snead ties me or beats me." Somebody took...
...would be a notably narrow skyscraper (72 ft. wide, 544 ft. high). "Greater total width would have been undesirable," the FORUM explained, because so many of the prospective tenants were high brass who would require honorific outside offices. There was a similar diplomatic reason for the Secretariat's 4,000 separate air-conditioning units. "Such a luxurious standard," said the FORUM, "is enforced on U.N. by the contiguity of Icelanders and Abyssinians . . . each with his own idea of thermal comfort...