Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bridge the gap between Hindu and Moslem, the Mahatma each day visited at least one Moslem family to discuss the spiritual causes behind communal strife. More & more Moslems (including 20 special bodyguards) were attending his prayer meetings. All the doctors in the section were Hindus and had fled during the rioting; Gandhi, whose medical theories include sunbaths, hip baths, milk and fruit-juice diets was tending the Moslem sick...
Every country's formal constitution differs from the way the government really works. Russia has the greatest gap of all. Its constitution promises "freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly"-and ignores all three except for carefully selected "Soviet selfcriticism" that promotes Party goals. It provides universal suffrage, but voters can merely endorse one hand-picked slate. Soviet citizens are "guaranteed inviolability of the person," though the secret police arrest anyone they please...
...long, long time. Of course, really important emergency work of any sort gets immediate treatment, but the routine repair cases find themselves at the bottom of an interminable column of names. And, though perhaps to a lesser extent, medical care of a less-than-immediate danger involves a long gap between application and appointment...
...have a chance now to rectify this difficient position. The gap in student life in this country has the opportunity to be filled by the birth of a national student union, which would strive for the very qualitics and activities lacking today...
...election, and especially the bored but watchful GIs who will be in charge, are symbolic of phases of the occupation that have been all too soon forgotten in America, where geisha houses, fraternization, and the war crimes trials are the bulk of newspaper coverage of Japan. To fill this gap in our knowledge, presumably, "Life" last week spewed forth a "Report on Japan" by a Senior writer called Busch. Sweeping his eyes quickly over the Japanese scene and General MacArthur's office, the Senior Writer concludes that the occupation is "sensationally successful"--nothing at all is lacking, no mistakes have...