Word: spanned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fortnight ago Power warned that the Russians with a force of just 300 missiles -half intercontinental ballistic missiles and half intermediate-range ballistic missiles-could destroy the U.S.'s 100-odd air bases at home and overseas and "virtually wipe out our entire nuclear strike capability within a span of 30 minutes...
...widens in 1961 and beyond, and whether the President's $41 billion defense budget for fiscal 1961 is an adequate response to the challenge of that gap. The critics do not argue that the 1961 budget fails to provide for adequate security during its own time span-July 1960 through June 1961-but that it fails to provide an adequate safety margin for the years beyond that. And the complexity of military technology in the missile age, the long "lead time" between a decision to undertake a program and the translation of the decision into ready-for-use hardware...
...Navy (officer-in-charge, ship construction, Brooklyn Navy Yard), Rudolph was impatient for fame, admits he became a "structural exhibitionist." For instance, he put a fancy catenary roof on a 20-ft. Florida guesthouse: "It should have been used on a building with a 300-ft. span, but I just couldn't wait...
...luxurious leather-and-linen decor might strike some visitors as overformal, but at least it did nothing to detract from the superb objects displayed in the opening show. The loan exhibition chosen from the top American collections consisted of 46 masterpieces, ranging from Japan to Afghanistan and covering a span of 3,000 years...