Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House began complying with the Supreme Court's order to yield 64 tape recordings, Presidential Counsel James St. Clair disclosed another mysterious gap on one of the tapes. He reported to Federal Judge John J. Sirica that five minutes and twelve seconds was missing from a tape of a crucial April 17, 1973, meeting on Watergate involving Nixon and top assistants...
...Barcelona's blossoming egalitarianism, in the salutations of "Comrade" to strangers and the notices in barber shops proclaiming that barbers were no longer "slaves." In one of his finest passages Orwell describes his flash encounter with a young, tough-faced Italian militiaman in the international troops' barracks. The gap of language, of nationality, of blood and class background that separates them vanishes when Orwell reads in his face that he would do anything--even commit murder--for a friend. "With his shabby uniform and fierce pathetic face," Orwell writes, "he typifies for me the special atmosphere of that time...
There are those who recall that epoch from the far side of the generation gap. To them, the '50s have a unique significance, a time when history seemed very close and life was lived more intensely. For those too young to remember 1950-1960, the time is suffused with a distant romance-as all things are when they exist beyond memory. Those who came of age in the '50s know better. To them the '50s were the embodiment of Dickens' phrase: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...
...only to run out of gas and | wheeze to a halt under the unblinking gaze of a herd of Herefords. Said one wry observer: "After Evel Knievel has jumped the Grand Canyon, Ron is going to top his act-he's going to try to jump the credibility gap...
...disorders of the '60s, the nation had, back to back, two Presidents who left it deeply cynical, suspicious that the Government had grown incapable of telling the truth. Says one House Democratic leader: "We've had two men widely viewed as cynics and manipulators. Johnson created a credibility gap, which is a polite way of saying that your Government lies...