Word: narrowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mother's scream rose shrilly. Four-year-old Diana Svet, walking down the gangplank of the Yugoslav passenger-freighter Srbija at a Brooklyn pier last week, had broken away from her mother, started running, slipped and plunged into the narrow crevice between ship and pier...
...Vendettas. But Quirino bears little responsibility for at least one element in the Philippines' economic and political deterioration. His faults do not include the narrow nationalism which is the strongest legislative trend in the Philippine Congress. Economic nationalism has frightened off prospective American investors, and inspired in some American businessmen already in the Philippines a strong desire to head for home...
Abroad, Smuts is considered a great world statesman. At home, where Malan edged him from office by a narrow margin in 1948, Smuts is a politician who stands for internationalism and relative liberalism on the race question, while Malan's nationalism and increasingly stern apartheid (race segregation) bring tension nearer the snapping point in a nation one-fifth white and four-fifths black...
Meteorologists have known about the jet stream for a long time. Sometimes their sounding balloons get into it and are quickly whisked out of the range of their instruments. Apparently it is caused by an encounter between two air masses of different temperatures. Since the jet stream is narrow for a wind stream (seldom more than 100 mi. wide) and only some 5,000 ft. deep, it is hard to pinpoint exactly on a weather map. Airplanes flying high toward the west in the middle latitudes are apt to head into an uncharted jet stream and find their ground speed...
...Ticket to Tomahawk. The first trip of a narrow-gauge ten-wheeler (minus 40 miles of track) in the Colorado Rockies; played for laughs by Dan Dailey and Anne Baxter (TIME...