Word: spans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elegantly simple structure and is laid in an austere setting. Beyond the joking of old farmer Hogan and his daughter Josie, there is very little movement in the play and very little action. Gone is the heavy-handed, generalized dialogue which intrudes upon the earlier action-packed dramas that span years of time. Moon for the Misbegotten is pared down to its essentials--the language is true to each character and the entire play takes place from one afternoon through the following dawn...
...dusty, sunbaked mélange of blue-domed mosques, dun-colored buildings and massive office complexes housing a growing government bureaucracy. Traffic jams are frequent as British-built double-decker buses, government Chevrolets and even donkeys all maneuver for the five bridges that span the Tigris. To break the jams, police assess fines as high as $320 merely for illegal parking on Saaddoun Street, the city's main thoroughfare...
Nixon would find Russia not only expectably ordered and disciplined but also wondrously spick-and-span. The Russians have been giving Moscow an elaborate facelift. More than 200 eyesore buildings, long marked for demolition, were torn down along the routes that the President was expected to take. The empty lots, which were sodded with lawn, were dubbed "Nixon squares" by Muscovites. Near the Kremlin, new lawns and flower beds were planted, and thick new asphalt sidewalks were put down outside the American embassy. There was a less pleasant aspect to the cleanup as well: to prevent possible demonstrations by Russia...
Rosewall has been playing the same sort of stylish tennis since the '50s, when he and another Australian teenager, Lew Hoad, were beating U.S. Davis Cup teams manned by Vic Seixas and Tony Trabert. It has helped him win major titles over an incredible span: the U.S. championship in 1956 and again in 1970; the French championship in 1953 and 1968; the Australian championship four times, the first in 1953 and the most recent just this year...
...great American success story that is going bad. Once a movement that leaped like brush fire along the 19th century frontier, the U.M.C. has suffered a net loss of 518,000 members in the past four years-the biggest of any church in U.S. history. Over a longer time span Sunday school attendance has slid by onefourth, the once-prized foreign missionary force by one-fifth. A recent survey by U.M.C. program planners found that grass-roots Methodists bitterly distrust church officials...