Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast, the route of the Southern procession echoed with memories of earlier clashes in the civil rights cause. Passing through Selma, Abernathy paused beside the silver span of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, scene on "Bloody Sunday" (March 7, 1965) of a club-flailing confrontation between King's marchers and Sheriff Clark's lawmen. During a speech recalling King, Abernathy suddenly fell silent and let the tears roll down his cheeks. Then a huge Negro woman began singing: "Jesus-got all the power...
...French military cemetery stands. It took South Vietnamese paratroops two days of headstone-to-headstone and house-to-house battling to drive the Communists out. All week long, battles raged around Saigon's Y Bridge, where snipers and Communist demolition teams, vainly assigned to blow up the forked span, held out against helicopter gunships and jet bombers while U.S. and South Vietnamese armor and infantry slashed at them on the ground. At week's end they came out shooting, trying to escape a tightening "wagon train" ring of allied armor and guns; 88 were killed. Inside Cholon...
...will get his investigation: when they meet at Churchill Downs this week, the stewards will interrogate everyone connected with the case, and decide what penalties, if any, should be meted out. If Trainer Cavalaris is held responsible for the drugging, he could be barred from racing for a time span ranging from a few days to life. Which leaves a big question in the immediate future of Dancer's Image. The horse is scheduled to race this week in the second of the Triple Crown events, the Preakness at Pimlico, Md. If Cavalaris is suspended, said Fuller, Dancer...
...mall will span 385 feet and will be lanscaped with shrubs, trees, grass, and lighting fixtures. The tunnel below the mall extends for approximately 75 of the 1,500 feet of the new roadway...
...interspersed with stills of Alice in Wonderland, pictures of Stalin, shots of comic strips. The director's off-camera voice constantly interrogates his performers, who stop acting to reply. Visually, La Chinoise is almost entirely successful. The rapid shifting of subject matter, the kinetic attack on the attention span, the dazzling use of primary colors and skeletal cinematic composition all suggest the possibility of transferring minimal art from the museum to the movies...