Word: lags
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That was in 1960. In 1963, the U.S. lag in the space race no longer seems quite so wide, the Kennedy Administration has admitted that the "missile gap" never existed, and President Kennedy is on record as saying that the U.S. should not base its policies on foreign opinion...
...names of contemporary theology-Tillich, Barth. the two Niebuhrs-remain the intellectual staples of the seminaries, but some students feel that there is not enough communication between U.S. and European theologians, and Robert B. Shepard Jr., 27, a senior at Southern California School of Theology, complains of "a serious lag in American theological thought...
Paralyzed by the notion that teaching about Communism might make some students Communists, and frightened by cold war controversy, most U.S. high schools evaded the subject for a decade after World War II. Now, the cultural lag having elapsed and Khrushchev having toned down Communist belligerence, schools are beginning to see the task as a scholarly opportunity for their history and social studies departments...
Konrad Adenauer, in his own tongue, has issued the following statement: "Es freut mich sehr Ihnen zum Geburtstag Glueck zu wuenschen," adding, "Ninety is much too young to quit." His Majesty King Gustav Adolf VI, providing for the time lag, writes "God morgon! God afton! God natt! Ingen orsak." And Carl Sandburg, who is only eighty-five, comments that "You have completed your Prairie Years. On to the War Years...
...There was a lag in the conversation," reported Washington...