Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that all sides in Viet Nam seem willing to relinquish rhetorical pronunciamentos for real bargaining, the distances separating the adversaries on specific issues can begin to be measured. There is no substantial gap-in principle at least-on a number of items. On others, grave differences and difficulties remain...
Sensing a disastrous collision fractions of a second before it might have occurred, he pulled Arts and Letters from the gap between Majestic Prince and Al Hattab just as Majestic Prince bore out and closed the space between horses. He checked his horse so smoothly and so expertly that there did not seem to be any cause for concern...
...beneath the mutual sneering across the generational gap, which is all part of the fun, is there anything more to the petulant plaint of the younger generation? Why is it so difficult to open up and trust somebody "over thirty"? What happens to people when they get to be thirty, anyway...
...bring it into the modern world by the simplistic techniques of socialism. Distrusted by the Israelis, the loser in two wars, he has not, after 17 years, been able to make his land any more of a modern nation state. Arabs are all too keenly aware of the gap between themselves and the Israelis, and Nasser's promise and unfulfilled hopes are the tragedy of his years of power...
...woman, and we'll fill up the whole globe once more and win our triumph!" In this novel, Maclnnes is more than a mugs' guide to a city and a race he loves and mourns. He is a fond pioneer explorer of the almost reachless gap between the races, and what manner of reconciliation may be possible...