Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shock shows. He did throw in a few pungent illustrations-"specialists say they wouldn't be surprised at all if 12,000 people are electrocuted every year because of unsafe hospital wiring"-but the thrust of the speech was different. What Nader has realized is that his effective life span as a reformer is limited. Someday he will get tired or wear out, suffer public embarrassment or simply not be able to get into the newspapers any longer...
...latter can be troublesome, particularly when the President is Richard Nixon, for whom the White House is not entirely a home. He is, by his own testimony, a "saltwater man," and in a relatively short span of time has picked up two seaside abodes in Florida, another in California, as well as retaining his leasehold on the old family manse in Whittier, Calif. While none of the four dwellings is perhaps fit for a king, the three recent acquisitions are certainly suitable to the style of a First Family, with all that that entails. How in the world does Nixon...
Because the mite abhors light, it remains burrowed beneath the surface of the skin during daytime, venturing forth only in the darkness. Thus, it cannot be detected even by careful scrutiny in front of a mirror. During its two-week life span, Demodex grows up, breeds and dies in the oily pores on the eyelid and elsewhere on man's face without attracting attention. It makes its presence known only when something upsets the ecological balance of the face, encouraging the mites to overpopulate. Then they cause swelling in an eyelash pore, or spread bacterial infections into adjacent follicles...
Julian Moynahan is one of those novelists who are cursed with a shorter attention span than their readers. His style is to restlessly gad about-from character to character, from scene to scene -always in the name of art, of course. Between the lines one can almost hear him learnedly murmuring the standard excuse: "Just reflecting the fragmentation of contemporary experience...
...than it did all last season. He urges speedsters like Carew and Outfielder Cesar Tovar to use their legs more often. The result: 16 stolen bases for Carew, 30 for Tovar. One day in May, Carew completely shattered the Detroit defense by stealing second, third and home in the span of seven pitches. Martin insists that stealing home, despite its rarity, is easier than a theft of second base because a smart runner can get a sizable jump on a pitcher, especially if the hurler is going into a full windup. Carew makes that arguable statement sound unassailable. "Each time...