Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...provinces baffle foreigners because so many of them sound alike (Honan, Hunan; Kiangsu, Kiangsi; Shansi, Shensi). Most typical of the northern provinces is perhaps Hopeh, which contains the capital city of Peking. From its rugged border with Manchuria, the province runs down in a shelving plain to the shallow Gulf of Chihli. Very few eminent Communists come from Hopeh or its neighboring province of Shansi, which is noted for sacred mountains and such spectacular cave temples as Yun Kang, where a mile-long cliff face has been chiseled into thousands of Buddhist images. Shensi is reverenced as the birthplace...
...biggest rumble out of Yankee Stadium in months, and the wonder was that there was anyone there to see it. It came on one of those hot, muggy nights when players as well as fans were languoring in the yawning gulf of ten games separating the Yankees from the rest of the American League. The yawn grew wider as the Yankees carried a 3-1 lead into the eighth inning; even the natives were getting restless...
...gulf between the National League-leading Los Angeles Dodgers and the bunched-up teams below, from St. Louis to Philadelphia, was not so wide or so yawny. And, bless Doubleday, the National's season is traditionally more prone to surprises. The San Francisco Giants showed hopeful early-season strength, and it was not so far back that St. Louis was half a game ahead and the next four teams were no more than 2½ games out of first place. But in July the Cardinals were walloped out of the lead in a fateful three-game series with...
...time, Belaúnde feels, to be gin bridging the deadly gulf between Peru's haves and have-nots by develop ing the nation that lies beyond the cities and the factories. During his campaign, Belaúnde journeyed to the remote out back of eastern Peru by canoe and mule team; ever since, he has talked endlessly of the riches that lie away from the sea, beyond the Andes. To open up the area to farmers and livestock producers, he talks of a new $216 million highway with almost mystical fervor. Another ambition is to start communal self...
...stop shopping and tourist centers. Sohio and Jersey Standard are setting up roadside restaurants that cook instant meals in microwave ovens. Pure Oil plans a chain of 80 "TOURest" centers that will include a motel, an Aunt Jemima pancake house (for which it owns the franchise) and filling stations. Gulf Oil plans to invest $40 million in the Holiday Inns motel chain, and American Oil is installing automatic dry cleaners on its properties. Atlantic Refining is putting up garden-supply centers and shops that sell gifts and repair lawnmowers...