Word: spans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lyric line, crystalline clarity and virtuoso technique to burn. Said a judge after he played Chopin's E-Minor Concerto in the finals: "I don't think he missed a single note." The only criticism of Pollini was that his staggering technical facility and his octave-wide span sometimes tempted him into playing at too fast a pace...
...Light Bandit. Over a span of several days within the next month, a gunman in a grey Ford coupe equipped with a red spotlight prowled lovers' lanes in outlying sections of Los Angeles. Flashing the spotlight as if he were a police man, he pulled up to parked cars, robbed the couples at pistol point. Local news papers called him "the Red Light Bandit." On two occasions, he forced a woman to get into his car and perform, as the indictments later charged, an "unnatural sex act." One of the victims, a girl of 17, was also forced...
...faulty (the court reporter had died before he completed transcription of his notes), to claims of new evidence proving his innocence, to declarations that all the delays (occasioned by his own persistence) had been torture and punishment enough for a man standing on the brink of death. In the span of a dozen years, he had won seven stays of execution, had made no fewer than 15 appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court ("The conclusion is irresistible," wrote Justice William O. Douglas in June 1957, "that Chessman is playing a game with the courts...
...Year's Reading contains the jottings that "B.B.," then 77, made at the end of every long day over a twelvemonth span. It depicts a landscape of the mind rather like that of B.B.'s villa. There is an interior fire of intellectual curiosity; there are well-kept gardens of esthetic hedonism and horizonal vistas of man's culture and fate. Fully as attractive as the book's observations is the afterimage it leaves of the civilized use of enforced leisure, the serene play of the mind amid 20th century bustle and terror...
...missiles to try to knock out U.S. retaliatory power with a surprise attack on U.S. bomber and missile bases. The warning by SAC's commander, General Thomas S. Power, that with a mere 300 ballistic missiles the U.S.S.R. could "wipe out our entire nuclear strike capability within a span of 30 minutes," is much to the point. General Power's answer to the threat-an "airborne alert" that would keep 25% of SAC's B-52s in the air at all times - would be enormously strenuous and costly. It would require more flight and maintenance crews, more...