Word: spanned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...view of the brief span in office left to him, Ike had decided he would probably not make any more trips abroad as President. But if circumstances changed, he would not hesitate to undertake another journey to strengthen the free world's bonds of friendship. "No consideration of personal fatigue or inconvenience, no threat or argument would deter me from once again setting out on a course that has meant much for our country, for her friends, and for the cause of freedom -and peace with justice in the world...
...only 48 hours after his arrival in Manila from Alaska that President Eisenhower got the news from Japan. ¶In the span of those few hours, Ike's reception had been a blazing triumph, hailed by more than a million Filipinos, flower-laden girls, boisterous, cheering mobs, tons of gaily colored confetti-the warmest welcome he had received since his historic visit to India. Now hundreds of thousands of Filipinos gathered in Manila's bayside Luneta park for a civic reception. Ike and President Carlos Garcia were standing on the ramp of a concrete bandstand, reviewing a military...
...autumn of 1954, and the U.S. was hard-crashing a life-or-death program: the development of a rocket that could bellow into space, span oceans and continents, plunge down through the atmosphere and deliver an H-bomb payload anywhere on the earth...
...with pyramid-shaped joints that are used as service areas. "I like my buildings to have knuckles," he explains. "Joints are the beginning of ornament." He has also used daring devices in more down-to-earth buildings. His Yale Art Gallery, for example, uses exposed reinforced concrete tetrahedrons to span the ceilings and incorporate mechanical equipment...
...world was now in for whatever cold strategy the Russians could devise. But the long-span view might be that Nikita Khrushchev had avoided a summit testing knowing that he was behind...