Word: spans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dozens of Virginia's letters were scribbled beside deathbeds. During the span of this volume, a cousin, an uncle, her mother, her stepsister, her father, her older brother and an aunt all died. She was reticent about the pain of these losses but characteristically scornful of the conventional pieties surrounding them. "The relations swarm," she wrote as her father lay dying. "Three mornings have I spent having my hand held, and my emotions pumped out of me, quite unsuccessfully...
With Banks dominating the lane, despite the presence of B.C.'s highly-touted forecourt combination of Will Morrison and Bob Carrington, Fine took control of the ball-handling, feeding off five of his game-high 13 assists in the critical span that saw Harvard break open a tight 59-55 contest...
What brought about the surge? Retailers unanimously spoke of "the return of consumer confidence," but few could explain just what made shoppers so cheerful at a time of continued high unemployment and inflation. "The American public has always had a short attention span," ventured Martin Jacobs of the Lipman Wolfe & Co. department-store chain in Oregon. "They see a recession, are told to conserve, and do. But then, when things don't improve all that much, they go back to their old buying habits." Julian Seeherman, a senior vice president of Abraham & Straus in Brooklyn thinks that with...
...FROM THE PAST by Phyllis Kluger. 191 pages. Knopf. $15. No mere woolgathering, the craft of needlepoint combines a meditative activity with the hard-core work ethic. Time is casually suspended stitch by stitch, but in the end something palpable gets done. Phyllis Kluger's stitches in time span nearly 5,000 years-from the arts of ancient Egypt and Byzantium to Renaissance Europe and early America. All are shown in full-color photos as well as instructional graph patterns. Kluger's historical commentary and analysis of her motifs provide an enriching dimension. One of the best needlepoint...
...Harvard outbursts came in a one-and-a-half minute span late in the second period when the Crimson struck for three goals to overcome a 2-0 deficit...