Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shade faster than inflation cheapens the value of the dollars put in plates. But over all, the National Council of Churches reported in mid-November, the income of 41 Protestant denominations with 46 million members rose 7.7% in 1973 while the buying power of those dollars dropped 9.6%; the gap between collections and inflation will probably widen this year. The Lutheran Church in America, troubled by high interest rates on mortgage loans, has imposed a moratorium on purchasing sites and building new churches. Despite a large rise in costs, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association will take in some $20 million...
Richardson initiated the Romanesque revival, drawing on the architecture of castles and fortresses from the turn of the first millenium. The arch, the doors, the turrets, apparently suggest images even to the cursory observer, narrowing the usual gap between the architect's conception and the everyday thoughts of the building's users. But Richardson's importance as an architect comes from his original manipulation of form and space, not from the round arches and towers he took from an earlier era. The scholar Henry-Russell Hitchcock termed Sever "vigorous," and "manly"--a phrase I deplore--and "rather more orderly" than...
Junior Ty Richardson could not handle 142-pound Larry Way of Springfield. Richardson, normally a 134 pounder, was moved up to 142 to fill the gap left by Harvard's injured captain, Carl Biello...
Claude Chabrol defines absurdity as the gap between the awesome finality of death and the trivial reasons men adduce for killing or putting themselves in the way of being killed. To him, murder is the ultimate emotional excess, an enigma he has worried with a tough-minded, ironic and often subtle compassion in such recent films as This Man Must Die and Le Boucher. These movies are about the exorcizing of private demons. Never until The Nada Gang has Chabrol concerned himself with murder in its most absurd manifestation-as an act of public political protest...
...monsters are V.L.C.C.s and U.L.C.C.s (for very large and ultra-large crude carriers), huge oil tankers that already range from 200,000 tons burden up toward 500,000 tons. Such ships are so long that they have been rammed at night by smaller vessels trying to steer through the gap between their bow lights and stern lights. They will soon be bigger still. The million-tonner is on the way, close to a third of a mile long and so deep that Notre Dame, Chartres and Reims cathedrals could fit into its tank space with only the towers showing...