Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wheatfields has come a potent Republican challenger, former Governor Henry Bellmon, 46, a well-to-do Billings rancher who acts like a hayseed but in fact is the shrewdest political operator in the state. Bellmon built a vi able G.O.P. in Democratic Oklahoma, overcame a 4-to-l registration gap, and carried the state for Richard Nixon in 1960 and himself in 1962. A Marine veteran of Iwo Jima who does not drink, smoke or swear, he delighted the backwoods by scorning a "monkey suit" at his inauguration. As Oklahoma's first G.O.P. Governor, Bellmon proved so popular that...
...Ojukwu joined the Nigerian army as an officer trainee. He felt little attachment to the army as such, but realized that it was "the only truly federal organization in Nigeria that appeared likely to remain intact." Until the very end, Ojukwu tried to use his influence to bridge the gap between Nigeria's cultures...
...babbles into Babel. A Committee to Encourage Optimism is formed, complete with clowns, dwarfs and dancing girls whooping it up convention style. Finally, the children come back for a brief visit and turn away from it all in lofty disdain, leaving their parents to founder in the generation gap forever...
...anything, last week's consensus statement simply made matters worse. In persuading Gallup to endorse the apologia, Harris may have widened the trade's credibility gap to the dimensions of 1948, when virtually every opinion sampling was ushering New York's Thomas E. Dewey into the White House. Twenty years later, the memory of that year sends shudders down the spines of all pollsters. One pollster called last week's results "a fiasco." Another, Burns Roper, observed: "If this statement of 'open lead' for Rockefeller is construed by readers as being designed to influence...
There is no reason that Hanoi "cannot find ways to let us know" of any conciliatory intentions, said Rusk. His point, while logical enough, served to close a gap that the U.S. had purposely left open in previous statements, which maintained that the North Vietnamese "wouldn't have to state" their moves toward deescalation. Johnson, moreover, spoke of "the chance that we will have to act promptly on additional military measures" in Viet Nam - a hint to some that the President was preparing for an increase in the fighting or bombing, perhaps even a final push to prove that...