Word: spanned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forever "growing" and "going through changes," then the man who swore the oath, say, three years ago, is not the same one now called upon to live up to it. This discontinuous series of new selves, emotionally different selves, scatters the mind. It makes for a short moral attention span...
...years ago, a storyteller was somebody who sat cross-legged on a classroom floor with a copy of The Brothers Grimm, locked in a losing battle with the attention span of first-graders. Under the ceiling fans in Rockport, 404 adults perch on folding wooden chairs for 12½ hours, charmed by every possible kind of story from every possible kind of storyteller...
...defense, "it won't take the public any longer to sour on defense than on the Great Society." Similar worries have been set forth by the increasingly vehement voice of the military reform movement, a loose coalition of military officers, civilian defense consultants, and some Senators and Congressmen who span the political spectrum from right-wing Republican to liberal Democrat. The reformers do not question the need for more spending. Says Edward N. Luttwak, of Georgetown University, one of the most hawkish members of the movement: "We have underfunded defense so much so long that it would be almost impossible...
...hundred people lingered on the lowest walkway, and 50 more chatted and watched the festivities from the highest span. The band was playing Satin Doll. At 7:01, the middle section of the top span simply gave way, and a moment later, the end sections fell free as well. Said a witness, Richard Howard: "You could watch people grab hold of the walkway. Then they just flew all over." Ann Dunford came within a hairbreadth of tumbling into the chasm. "I had one foot on the skyway," she said, "and I don't know if I felt...
...California the biological clock was ticking away. As helicopters began spraying the insecticide Malathion on infested areas just south of San Francisco, they were racing against the marvelous reproductive capacities of the tiny Mediterranean fruit fly: a mature female can produce 1,000 eggs over its two-month life span. Last week alone, the targeted area expanded from 120 to 140 to 180 sq. mi. and fears mounted that the fly was about to break out of the Bay Area and move into the lush farm lands of the San Joaquin Valley. The long-range worry: a federal quarantine, which...