Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Doria. A moment later, with a grinding, crunching roar, Stockholm's knife-sharp prow (reinforced for ice in northern ports) ground 30 ft. deep into the starboard quarter of Andrea Doria, just abaft her flying bridge. Then, with a shudder and shower of sparks, the shivering vessels jerked apart...
...Middle Eastern life and politics. The European Jews arrived in Palestine, one writer said, as if they had come to colonize the moon. But the place was not untenanted, and all the history of Israel since its birth has been troubled by a 35-year war that, quite apart from the usual territorial disputes and ethnic antagonisms, has been one of conflicting visions, of Israeli hopes and Palestinian hopes...
Prisoners Sacco and Vanzetti died in the order that their names had long been coupled, seven minutes apart...
Last week Bell Telephone Laboratories demonstrated a small, simple device that can do many of the jobs now done by vacuum tubes. Called a "Transistor," it is a slim metal cylinder about an inch long. Inside are two hair-thin wires whose points press, two-thousandths of an inch apart, on a pinhead of germanium...
...style of unmatched clarity and precision, master of the art of conveying emotions, particularly violent ones, with an effect almost of first-hand experience, he seemed to have established himself as the most powerful direct influence on contemporary literature. After these three books, however, came the slump. Apart from Winner Take Nothing (1933), a volume of short stories, the eight succeeding years saw only two books, both failures. To most readers Death in the Afternoon (1932) was a verbose testimonial to the author's enthusiasm for bullfighting. Green Hills of Africa (1935) was an exhaustive and exhausting account...