Word: spans
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...Israeli scorpion, a 5-in.-long species known as the "death stalker," may offer hope for the 25,000 Americans each year who have glioma, an incurable, rapidly spreading form of brain cancer. Surgery provides only a temporary respite, and the few experimental therapies extend a patient's life span only weeks...
...projects span all disciplines, from archeology to astronomy...
Best of all, the man knew his audience. He didn't rail against our lack of an attention span; he played to it. The minute that big, easily bored, sugar-fueled baby that is the American public started to drift off, he'd grab a straw hat and a banjo and somehow get us back. And so we never turned him off. We sat and watched, grinning and glassy-eyed, waiting expectantly to see what the funny man with the fat red nose would do next...
play, but Clemente rattled in the next six points in a span of only 31 seconds to ice the game for the Crimson...
...KERREY: Not long before I got here, C-Span came to the floor of the Senate. A confirmation that would normally take 30 minutes suddenly ook seven or eight hours because everyone wanted...