Word: spanned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Over a span of six minutes and 21 seconds, Cornell ran off a string of 10 unanswered points...
...LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR. On the eastern side of the 420-ft. crossing, the Soviet hammer-and-sickle flag and the black-red-and-gold banner of the German Democratic Republic flapped in the chill breeze off the ice-clogged Havel River. Most of the time the iron span in the forested Wannsee district of southwestern Berlin is a bridge leading nowhere, unused except for the occasional official vehicle...
...before 11 last Tuesday morning, the diminutive figure in fur hat and baggy clothing emerged from behind two vans parked at the middle of the bridge. "No Wall!" Shcharansky shouted to bystanders with a smile as he strode across the 4-in.-wide line at the center of the span that marks the barrier between East and West. Then he asked, "When will I see my wife?" Replied one of the Americans: "If all goes well, you'll have a pleasant surprise in Frankfurt...
...renowned for her ability to fill a leotard, Raquel Welch has lately been stepping into the blue-suede shoes--and tight blue jeans--of such superstar rockers as Elvis Presley, Mick Jagger and Bruce Springsteen. As part of her touring nightclub act, Welch does a medley of tunes that span three musical gen- erations, from Heartbreak Hotel to Satisfaction to Born in the U.S.A. Says Welch: "I've always been a kind of mimic. I'm just doing now what I've done in the privacy of my own home. I really make a complete fool of myself." She claims...
...plain iron span over the Havel River joining Potsdam, East Germany, to ^ West Berlin has long been legendary as the "Bridge of Spies." Across it walked Francis Gary Powers, pilot of the ill-fated U-2 reconnaissance plane shot down over the Soviet Union, who was freed in 1962 in exchange for Soviet Master Spy Rudolf Abel. Last June the bridge was used to trade four Communist- bloc agents for 25 Europeans who had been imprisoned in the East for espionage. Usually such prisoners are traded in secret, often in the foggy predawn hours. Last week, however, the western...