Word: spanned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decade 1925 through 1934 are works by such divergent artists as that arcane, Swiss-born Bauhaus prof, Paul Klee, the Chicago anatomist of decay, Ivan Albright, the tragic expressionist Arshile Gorky, and the U.S.'s clown-painting Walt Kuhn. In paintings executed within a three-year span, each depicts man masked in dreadful isolation...
...They are also indefatigably curious, run to explore any new object that is presented them. Loving and monogamous, they are happiest when paired. Their gestation period is 24 days, and under ideal conditions they will produce an average litter of four once a month during their four-year life span...
Centuries ago, the effects of hormone decline were less conspicuous because so few women lived beyond the menopause. Now modern medicine has added 30 or more years to the female life span. And still, Dr. Wilson complains, physicians generally dismiss post-menopausal changes as part of the "natural" aging process. Their attitude, he suggests tartly, stems from the fact that "most doctors, being male, are themselves immune to the disease." As he sees it, the menopause is "castration," and he asks whether his colleagues would tolerate so casually a similar fate in themselves...
Rumania's trade with the West has risen a significant 13% in the past decade: from 20% in 1955 to more than a third of the total last year. During the same span, trade with Russia fell from 69% to 41%, nearly as much as with Rumania's Red neighbors. "Why should we send corn to Poland?" asks Premier Maurer. "So Poland can fatten its pigs and buy machinery from the West? We can sell our corn direct and buy the machinery we need ourselves...
...meal in the country"), Chicago ("Such terrific oomph") and San Francisco ("I can walk with pleasure"). But it will take more than love to save the cities. Weaver is under no illusion that the challenges that are now his will be met "in my lifetime-certainly not in my span of public office...