Word: extended
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Horn, with a time of 20:56 for the 4.2 mile run, edged out a Crimson quintet which finished within 64 seconds of each other. Crimson coach Bill McCurdy said yesterday he held his runners back, not wanting to extend them before Tuesday's triangular meet with Boston University and Providence College...
...making security grounds the sole reason for dismissal. But fourteen of the institutions, mostly state universities, still refused to agree to the contracts, fearing government encroachment on academic freedom. The American Civil Liberties Union registered a particularly strong protest against the government's action, expressing concern "lest government control extend so far as to impose strict conformity on our national life...
...believe that Communism really is not plotting the free world's destruction (despite what the Reds have long said), plans no more nastiness (despite what the Communists and satellites have done and still do, at home and abroad), and wants only "peaceful coexistence" if the West will just extend a trusting hand. As the horror of atomic and later of hydrogen warfare burned more deeply into Britain's consciousness, the need became more insistent (every Briton knows the statistic that four to eight well-placed nuclear bombs would just about wipe out his island). As the years went...
...appear rather tame by comparison. But . . . this big tough Russian murmuring "Eto Nichevo," as he [disen tangled himself from] his warning buzzers and portable political tutors after landing "near the white chalk cross," is what prompted me to write . . . All my friends here in Combat Control would like to extend a formal invitation to the U.S.S.R. parachute-jumping team to a spot jumping contest. We don't think chalk crosses (so many feet wide) are quite sporting; we'd rather a silver dollar, thumbtack or playing card were used for a mark...
Last week President Eisenhower took off on another trip; his purpose was neither fish nor scenery. He inspected reclamation projects in Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska. He stopped in each state except Kansas to extend friendly greetings to G.O.P. congressional candidates, plugged away in favor of more local control of water power and irrigation projects...