Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pushed his little (7,000 tons) freighter, Cape Ann, for a 55-minute run to Andrea Dona's side. The military transport, Private William H. Thomas, was 20 miles away. The destroyer escort Edward H. Allen, cruising off the coast in gunnery practice, was closing a 52-mile gap. And the old but agile lie de France, which had been running at 17 knots 45 miles to the east, had come hard about, kicked up to 22. and promised to reach Andrea Doria within two hours...
Apropos of the time gap between acts, the Tufts people have been ill-advised in dropping the "poet's monologue" that is supposed to follow the intermission. This speech was used to great advantage by the Circle-in-the-Square. It not only helps to bridge the eighteen years, but focuses on what is going on in the minds and hearts of the nuns, and happens also to be beautifully written. It was a pity to see it left...
...byplay New Jersey's fat (330 Ibs.), jolly T. James Tumulty was needled with the gentle observation that he straddles too many fences. "My dear man," replied Democrat Tumulty. "I am so large I could represent all sections.'' Twitted Pennsylvania's Republican Jim Fulton: "The gap between the front and back of this Democratic Party is just big enough for you to fill...
...nation can comfortably afford. Since 1952 the army has had to fend for itself, living haphazardly on inadequate special appropriations because no government has lasted long enough in office to get a budget through Parliament. Army forces in north Sumatra found smuggling a practical solution to the budget gap. Rubber smuggling is big business: last year Malaya officially bought five times as much rubber from Indonesia as Indonesia officially exported. It was also profitable: the army acknowledged having earned...
...bind and gag the concierge and his wife, roll back the living-room rug and begin cutting through the concrete floor. When the hole is the width of a man's wrist, an umbrella is lowered through it and opened to catch the fragments of plaster as the gap is widened. Once in the store, the alarm is swiftly disconnected, the safe opened with an electric drill, and the loot removed. The entire operation simulates major surgery: there is the same mute reaching for instruments, the same intensity of purpose, the same growing strain as the operation approaches completion...