Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spring long, signs of economic troubles had been piling up. Britain's trade gap had continued to widen-by $67 million in June alone. Gold and hard-currency reserves had fallen by $372 million in four months. Inadvertently, Wilson himself had speeded the crisis. Before leaving for his trip to Moscow fortnight ago, he explained to the House of Commons that the new 7% bank rate had been urgently necessary to defend the pound, then went on to add that other emergency measures would come in ten days' time. The warning unnerved investors and sent the pound plunging...
...fill that gap, Restaurateur Victor Bergeron, better known in 13 U.S. cities as Trader Vic, rallied 20 oenological experts for a year's study, and last week uncorked the first guide to the wines of California, whose annual production of 143 million gal. accounts for 76% of all the wine consumed in the U.S. Vic's list rates 99 wines from a top of three stars ("the finest"), to zero stars ("highly acceptable"). His eleven three-star choices, all in the $2.50 to $5.50 range at stores...
...union's analysis was not far wrong; the small gap between the rival positions is a reflection of how good the appraisal was. But the IAM's calculations left out one factor--federal intervention. As a result of the government's role, both parties have found their bargaining positions frozen: the union can't back down from its demands because of internal politics and external rivalries; management fears that a union victory, which could serve as a model for other labor disputes in the near future, will bring down the wrath...
Then he called in Bresler-Duddy to help develop a "just-out-of-college, freshly scrubbed image" for Bobbe. A dentist corrected "a Terry Thomas gap" in her teeth, and she was put on a strict diet. Hairdresser Ernest Adler gave her a swirling, swept-back do, Rosemont's wife dumped her "beatnik clothes" for a wardrobe at Bergdorf's, and Cosmo Serchio draped her in $15,000 worth of new gowns...
...past few years the American Shakespeare Festival has presented the first, second, and fourth play in the tetralogy. This year it has opened its twelfth season by turning to the third and least often performed. But, despite the highly commendable Falstaff of Jerome Kilty, the gap is not really being filled: there is too much directorial and thespian ineptitude surrounding the fat knight...