Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After reading about the "Affection Gap" [Sept. 23], I questioned myself as to just who dislikes President Johnson. It is plain that no man can satisfy all the people at all times. I wonder if it is not part of being "in" to dislike the man running the country...
...Morality Gap." On pocketbook issues, Brown has aroused even more discontent. State property taxes have increased twice as much as personal income; welfare costs have soared 113.7% in the past eight years. As Reagan charged during an NBC Meet the Press confrontation with Brown, the Governor's administrators automat-ica'ly reach for state and federal subsidies as the instant aspirin for almost any problem. Despite such immediate and debatable issues, the campaign (which Bob Hope has called "How the West Was Won, starring Ronald Reagan and Pat Brown") has largely echoed and re-echoed extravagant personal attacks...
Reagan accuses Brown of being too far left and talks about a "morality gap" in Sacramento. Brown says Reagan is a right-wing extremist and, if elected, would "disrupt radically the quality of life in California." Some rabid Brown backers have retouched photographs to show Reagan with a Hitler-like forelock and moustache; some far-out Reagan supporters display bumper stickers proclaiming: IF IT'S BROWN, FLUSH IT. Brown insists that the main issue is Reagan's glaring inexperience in government. Reagan retorts that the main issue is the persistent bumbling of Brown...
Again, there was a crucial gap between Harvard's new systems of offense and defense and the execution of the still learning Crimson players...
...have worked. On the other hand, nationalism, for all its constructive principles of self-determination and self-defense, draws most of its energy from hostility, at least in its appeal to the hard-core ghetto youth. They are the ones who are conscious of the extreme social and psychological gap between what they are and what they are "supposed" to be in order to "make it" in this society. They are the ones that grow up in a world of soul, pot, and poor schools, only to be told in their late teens by a man in a business suit...