Word: spans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After heart disease and cancer, alcoholism is the country's biggest health problem. Most deaths attributed to alcoholism are caused by cirrhosis of the liver (13,000 per year). An alcoholic's life span is shortened by ten to twelve years. Recently, medical researchers have found evidence suggesting that excessive use of alcohol may also quietly contribute to certain kinds of heart disease, and that it eventually damages the brain (see box page...
...average life span of Italian governments is only about ten months, but Premier Mariano Rumor's latest Cabinet (his fourth) could not even equal the norm. Formed eight months ago, following the departure of Premier Giulio Andreotti, the Rumor government collapsed last week because of a controversy over inflation controls...
...WITH CHINA. You will have against you a country of almost a thousand million people, the like of which has never yet gone to war in the history of the world. The time span since 1949 [when the Communists took power] has not been long enough for the population to lose its high degree of fundamental industriousness (which is higher than ours today), its tenacity and submissiveness. And it is firmly in the grip of a totalitarian system no whit less vigilant than ours. Its army and population will not surrender en masse with Western good sense, even when surrounded...
...visitors were paced by a three-goal performance from Tom Fleming, who scored two of his goals within a 20-second span of the second period, bringing Dartmouth to within a goal of Cornell...
What gives such a sense of the master about Nabokov is perhaps the feeling of common characters, common turns of phrase, common interests running through his long shelf of books. His novels span the gap between contemporary Switzerland and Russia before the Revolution. In between lie post-war America and Berlin between the wars, tea on the edge of Bloomsbury and dinner with Joyce in Paris. There are fantastic countries, like "Ultima Thule" published last spring in a A Russian Beauty and Other Stories...