Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...device a third of the way into the picture. Orson Welles, given one of the most thankless villains in ages, tries to build a character out of his very considerable talents as a magician, but somehow Panavision 70 and the ample opportunity for special effects create an unbridgeable credibility gap...
With three-quarters to go, the Crimson pulled back together, and Penn started to falter. The gap widened. Harvard's time of 8:50.5 gave it a two and a half length win over the Quakers...
...their defenders. Georgia's Senator Richard Russell complained: "You can't please some people. If the President brings the general home to report on the war, that's propaganda in their minds. If he doesn't bring him home, there's a credibility gap." Said Humphrey: "Dissent must be responsible, and we must have the equal right to state our position...
...Gap. Johnson also met twice with Italian Premier Aldo Moro, tried to reassure him that the U.S.-sponsored nuclear nonproliferation treaty would not handicap non-nuclear nations from fully developing the industrial applications of atomic energy. He talked for 45 minutes with British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, encouraging him to go ahead with his decision to apply for Common Market membership...
...inside story" of how he came to leave the White House. "The President called me in one day and said: 'Bill, when you took over as press secretary, the polls were 60-40 for me. Now they're 40-60 against me. In those days the credibility gap was just a line in one of Everett Dirksen's sonnets. Now it's a national issue. What do you think?' When I said I thought I'd better call Harry Guggenheim, you know what the President did? He gave me a dime...