Word: spans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even the most optimistic American strategists are frank to admit that no new weapon-or defense against an adversary's new weapon-will stand unchallenged for long. Every new achievement spurs ambitious and expensive counterefforts. As a result, the life span of each new kind of weaponry becomes shorter and shorter; even the "smartest" electronic devices may be obsolescent soon after they reach the battlefield...
...entire action of the play is set in the room that serves as the site of the lovers' annual tryst. While their surroundings-furnishings, proprietor and all-remain unaltered during the play's 24-year time span, Doris and George can hardly boast the same luck. Each finds himself trapped over time in a series of personae that represent responses to both the vicissitudes of personal experience and social and political developments in the outside world. George-originally a guilty young man who admits "I know I'm no bargain and I suspect I'm deeply neurotic" - follows a common...
Along with slush, broken toys and bills, one of the lingering misfortunes of every holiday season is the annual Disney movie, which displays a dismayingly hearty life span. It will circulate for months, play the Saturday matinee route and eventually show up on television. The small screen, in fact, is probably more suitable for The Island at the Top of the World, where its dirigible would not look so much like a balloon left over from a parade, and its seething volcano would appear at least somewhat more menacing than an eruption on an adolescent's skin...
...field maneuvers, in fact, even the most skeptical of Holland's allied commanders admit that the Dutch soldiers perform as well as spick-and-span units from other nations. When the Soviet Ambassador to The Netherlands chided Defense Minister Henk Vredeling on his soldiers' long hair, Vredeling replied that Samson also had long hair-and nobody wondered whether he could fight...
...four whites (the District of Columbia is predominantly black), and this is considered by some to be a disadvantage for the white upper-middle class defendants. That argument, however, is discredited by many expert observers. The jurors range in age from 27 to 68 (average: 52). Their occupations span a wide spectrum, including a loan specialist for the Department of Agriculture, a dime-store saleswoman, a logistics coordinator, a retired domestic and a hotel doorman. The jury is overwhelmingly female (nine to three). After they were selected, fully half the jurors told Judge John Sirica that they had reservations about...