Word: span
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to a report prepared by U.M.C.'s cardiologists, the facility's four heart surgeons operated on 346 patients over a 22-month span...
Evert Lloyd, meanwhile, sailed serene, never losing a set. She first came to Wimbledon ten years ago, and in that long span she has never failed to reach the semifinals. Even more remarkable, she has played in the finals seven times. It is a measure of her pre-eminence that she considered a mere two Wimbledon titles a blot on her career, and she was determined to win her third. "I have been thinking about Wimbledon all year," she said. "Every match I played, every time I practiced, I said to myself, 'This is what I'm going...
Conservative Catholics saw red last year when Maryknoll magazine, edited by D'Escoto before he joined the Nicaraguan revolution, lauded Cuba for "advances in a brief span of 20 years [which] are unparalleled in Latin America." The magazine's publisher, Father Darryl Hunt, like the ill-starred Father Bourgeois, has shed all nonpartisanship on the touchy issue of El Salvador. He charges that "the U.S. continues to support a clique of rightist murderers...
...himself, a labor of 21 years, balancing the scientific and the popular, to please novice and expert alike. He updates ornithological subjects like mating. Some findings: scientists now call the hummingbird's brief passion "promiscuous"; birds fly by instinct, not parental instruction; a robin's natural life span can be as long as 11½ years, but its life expectancy, because of power lines and pesticides, is little more than one year...
...obvious that the netwomen have come a long way in a short time span, but Felske has a surprisingly casual attitude. "I'm not of the Vince Lombardi mold at all," he says, adding, "I've been a pretty good friend to my players--maybe too much of one. The good guys often finish last in this business...