Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hundreds of marlin have been pulled from Pinas Bay's waters, and Smith himself has one of five world records: a 186-lb. 8-oz. beauty, caught on 12-lb. test line-the equivalent, perhaps, of a 1.900-pounder on standard 130-lb. test. In one twelve-day span at Pinas last year, a marlin-mad Virginia couple actually boated 47 blacks, and Smith can prove that six out of every ten visitors land the marlin they came to catch...
...Despite some fare cuts, or more probably because they helped stimulate business, U.S. domestic trunk airlines earned $19 million in the first four months this year, v. a $10.5 million loss in the same span last year...
Watershed of Manners. The story is not included in A Backward Glance-and not surprisingly. Scott Fitzgerald and Edith Wharton were separated by more than several stiff drinks and the span of a generation. They stood on opposite sides of what she came to think of as the Great Social Divide-World War I-and no effort could reach across that watershed of manners...
...combines the shallower features of a dramatic reading and a TV documentary. To cover the presidential span from Washington through Wilson, scenes and episodes have to be scissored to candid-camera snipshots. While painless history is the mood, the recurring theme, insofar as there is one, is that sorrow, great loneliness and sometimes tragedy are the permanent occupants of the house on Pennsylvania Avenue...
Flock of Birds. In the span of the ensuing decade of strategic missilery, the U.S. has accomplished one of the greatest scientific, engineering and construction feats in history. It has produced and deployed a versatile flock of big birds: the pioneering Atlas, the more powerful two-stage Titan, the stopgap IRBMs Thor and Jupiter, and those truly pushbutton solid-fueled mainstays of the nuclear arsenal, the mass-produced Minuteman and the elusive, submarine-borne Polaris...