Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Across a deserted lecture hall they exchange smoldering glances; lightly, almost accidentally, his hand brushes hers. The lighting is muted, their mood is solemn. The effect is that of domestic comedy played in the style of grand opera-a pitiless and economical way of emphasizing the gap between the actress's dreams and her everyday life...
...junior varsity lights did not fare so well in their contest. Harvard pulled up from fifth to fourth place with 400 meters to go, but could not narrow the two-length gap which separated them from the victors at the finish line...
...nightmare. To cover the sprawl, Metropolitan Editor Bill Thomas now assigns reporters to metropolitan-wide specialties-rapid transit, smog, property taxes. In its ceaseless search for talent, the Times has the hardest time locating competent copy editors, who are now in short supply across the nation. To fill the gap, the paper is about to embark on a program of recruiting copy editors straight from college and training them...
...Washburn's first freshman heavyweight boat is seeded second behind Pennsylvania, to whom it lost last weekend by a fairly convincing gap...
Fears of a Gap. Still unsolved was another problem of the NATO crisis: the fate of the two French army divisions and two air wings now stationed in West Germany. When De Gaulle withdraws his forces from NATO on July 1, will his soldiers stay across the Rhine or go home? Understandably, the Germans are loathe to see the French forces pull out and leave a gap in the NATO armor. De Gaulle, of course, would like to leave French forces in Germany under the old occupation status. To gain leverage on the Germans, Paris has hinted that if French...