Word: spans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cinematic techniques fill in historical detail while adding structural unity to the production. Certain scenes are structured around related events which span a ten-year period of the movement. For example, in the second act, women in Manchester and London at various points in time appear simultaneously, collecting and begging for donations to the movement. The scene culminates with all the women converging on London to launch the political phase of their movement...
...unreal life of the croquet tournament and the formal ball goes on today just as though nothing much had changed, except for the invention of air conditioning, since Henry Flagler first laid a railroad span across Lake Worth in 1894 and opened up an idyllic new playground to his friends. From what is probably the world's richest island, now at the height of the two-month ritual known simply as The Season, TIME'S Peter Range reports...
However, Harvard's trends differed from those established in the ACE study in the areas of medicine and law. The percentage of Harvard seniors planning to go to law school dropped during the six-year span and the medical school percentage showed no change...
...pale figure tottered across the single-span Lowu Bridge last week and stepped onto the platform of the Hong Kong border railroad station. No Westerner had seen him since November 1969. No one knew precisely why the Chinese Communists had detained him or where he had been held. As he fainted before welcoming officials and was whisked away to a hospital, no one knew what strange new yarns Francis James, 54, would thread into an already bizarre journalistic career...
Under the direction of the same earth-bound "driver" who successfully operated Lunokhod 1 for more than 10 months (according to a local joke, he is a former Moscow cabbie), the 1,848-lb. vehicle promptly began reconnoitering the area. In the span of about half an hour, said Tass, it crawled about 30 yds., taking a small crater "in its stride." Its protruding lobster-like TV eyes gave the ground team "a good view of the moonscape." Then, after completing this initial exercise, the robot was given a day's rest so that it could soak...