Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whispering as if hundreds of people were talking and moving about very quietly. There were no planes. Nothing in the sky but the stable moon . . . . I kept thinking people had spoken close to me, at my elbow. But I saw nobody except a line of men slipping past a gap in a stone wall at the top of a field . . . . Very early in the morning I heard the cars come back...
Caught in a cross fire from suspicious Senators, Davies admitted that even the 27,800,000 deficit might not materialize. Tank cars, which he understood to number 18,000, might fill the tanker gap. But the tank cars were elusive. He did not know where they were, whether they were idle, how they could be put to work. Neither Transportation Defense Commissioner Ralph Budd nor American Association of Railroads President John Pelley could tell him. The Senators decided to get hold of Messrs. Budd and Pelley, track the tank cars to their lair...
...Said moonfaced, bespectacled Ambassador Nomura: "The gap between the positions of Japan and the U.S. must be bridged. It will be folly of the worst kind otherwise...
...completely conceived was the stage play that its leading character, heartless, ambitious Regina Giddens, is played by Tragedian Bette Davis with scarcely an accent's difference from gruff Tallulah Bankhead's interpretation of the original Broadway role. This was not Miss Davis' idea. She quarreled with gap-toothed Director William Wyler (Jezebel, Dead End) for her own version. He-or the play-won. Result: the films' foremost dramatic actress not only acts like Tallulah but looks like...
Some of these instances, rightly complained of by U.S. businessmen, are symptoms of Britain's real need for foreign exchange (especially in Latin America). Some represent the gap that still lies between two peacetime competitors. The rest are symptoms of the fantastic difficulty of policing every foreign-trade transaction in the midst of a war on three continents...