Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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People walked. Thousands of New Yorkers took to their feet, trudging in refugee-like lines over rainswept streets and across the great bridges that span the East River between Manhattan and the other boroughs. Secretaries hiked 50 blocks to work; men felt the twinge of leg muscles long unused. People took to motor scooters, bicycles and, in at least one case, a horse. Many drove their cars into the city-too many. Though most of them generously picked up neighbors or strangers along the way, they often wound up stalled together for hours in massive traffic jams that surpassed anything...
American has plenty of company in its quest to become the third U.S. airline (after Northwest and Pan Am) to span the Pacific. Eastern, Western and Continental have made similar applications to the CAB. United, which already flies to Hawaii, intends to ask for an extension to Tokyo. Delta and TWA will probably also put in bids...
Pretty Sight. Her chosen time span begins in 1890. In Britain, gentlemen still peered out of their club windows at passing carriages and told each other "what a pretty thing it was to see a lovely woman drive in London behind a well-matched pair," and nobody wanted "to think about making money, only about spending it." In office at Westminster was "the last government in the Western world to possess all the attributes of aristocracy in working condition." Prime Minister Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord Salisbury, was dedicated to the principle that a nation should be ruled...
...second half Harvard lost its composure completely. In a seven minute span Gene Dressler twice missed five-foot jump shots on the fast breaks. Barry Williams and Charlie McGonaugie threw the ball away, and John Scott was called for travelling. As Cornell moved ten points ahead, Harvard started passing the ball around like a hot potato. Nobody wanted to shoot, and the Crimson passed up good shots. With 10:20 to play Cornell led, 70 to 57, and Harvard threatened again...
...were still awake for the second period, you saw something that looked like a three-ring circus. Dude Thorn's second score was sandwiched between goals by Harvard's Bob Fredo and Gordon Price all three tallies coming within the span of 52 seconds. Dennis McCullough added another at 7:51, but Harvard's lead was not yet safe...