Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...research director of the Treasury Department, he worked closely under Assistant Secretary Harry Dexter White, who died soon after Whittaker Chambers called him a key figure in the Red infiltration of Washington. To many of his subordinates, White seemed a rather frightening and unapproachable boss. Coe, who used to stretch out on the davenport in White's office, became a channel between White and the staff. At the Bretton Woods Conference, Coe did important organizational chores, just as Alger Hiss had done during the founding of the United Nations at San Francisco. In 1946, Coe became secretary...
...lonely stretch of road six miles from Tunis, assassins poured a stream of bullets at a man driving past. Next morning his body was found, crushed and unrecognizable. The authorities identified him as the most formidable Tunisian nationalist leader still at liberty in the land: Farhat Hached, 39-year-old head of the 100,000-strong General Union of Tunisian Workers...
Zesty as a two-year-old rounding into the stretch, Britain's aged Prime Minister Winston Churchill last week entered his 79th year enthusiastically agallop on all his old hobbies. Unlike his gelding Non-Stop, which won only second place in the races at Kempton Park on the eve of his birthday, the Old Warrior himself spent the week in top form, smiting parliamentary enemies with one hand and holding the shredded remnants of a vanished empire together with the other. He did admit that several American admirers had been sending him rejuvenating pills...
...financed by the Carnegie Corporation, Black's 25 or more students do intensive work in their special farm field, and also dip into the more advanced theory of agricultural economies. These academic farmers do bring to Littauer the practical experience most students lack. In fact, after their academic stretch, the agricultural extension students have advanced farther and faster in government that Littauer's other products. Black's colleagues agree that his falls, has had as profound an influence unique program, for all its academic piton the public service as almost all the rest of Littauer...
...this shambles of what might have been genuine liberality, however, several happy features still appear. For one thing, the Housemasters may stretch parietal rules in whatever direction they wish, and many have already shown willingness to take advantage of this. Further, the seven to eleven extension, even it it does not apply to Fridays, is certainly worth an huzzah or two. And lastly, the Faculty's action (taken at Dean Leighton's request, who in turn was acting on a Student Council recommendation) of replacing the purloined afternoon hours on Sunday is quite pleasing...