Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gave Wilson just enough hope to ask Smith to meet him secretly in Gibraltar. "I would not have contemplated a visit today unless I had reason enough to think we are within hailing distance of a solution," Wilson told Parliament, but he warned: "There is still a considerable gap to bridge." At week's end, the Tiger docked and the two Prime Ministers left for their capitals to announce the results of their unusual parley...
...base camps will also be a problem. A good rest area is essential: even the long-inured Vietnamese seldom stay out in the field for more than 24 hours at a stint. Finding dry land to implant batteries of howitzers is difficult. More armed helicopters could fill the gap, but they require airports, which in the Delta must be built up with imported gravel. Can Tho airfield proudly announces that it is seven feet above sea level, and the Bac Lieu airstrip sports a sign giving its elevation as "Dry season: two feet above sea level. Rainy season: two feet...
...consists of two slender beams of anodized aluminum, 30 ft. long by 2 ft. high, braced between uprights. A cool piece of pure structure, the object has all the contemplative imagery of an I beam, but it has an inner electronic life. The narrow six-inch gap between the aluminum beams is brightly lit by hidden sodium-vapor lamps that shine on electric eyes staring up through pencil-sized holes in the bottom beam...
Brandeis started fast in the second half, with the center play of 6 ft. 10 in. Tom Haggerty leading a rally that closed the gap 37-34 That's when Harvard back court experience began to show. Jeff Grate (nine points) hit a jump shot. Gene Dressler (12 points) made two steals in a row, getting nothing out of the first, but two foul-line points from the second. Dressler hit another foul shot, and then a jump shot, and Grate added a foul shot, and the two guards had opened up a 42-34 lead...
...says in the current LIFE. "I recall I heard that first shot and was starting to turn to my right to see what had happened. [Then] I started to look around over my left shoulder, and somewhere in that revolution I was hit. My recollection of that time gap, the distinct separation between the shot that hit the President and the impact of the one that hit me, is as clear today as it was then...