Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cashmore, a Brooklyn-born Episcopalian, peddled newspapers as a boy to stretch the finances of his widowed mother, later studied law at night, and got into politics by running for the state assembly. ("You keep thinking you've met him before," said one reporter, "and you have-in every political machine in the U.S., and every hour on the hour in Washington.") He graduated to alderman, then borough president, has never been beaten in 17 elections-all confined to Brooklyn...
Mainly, and with no more stretch than a sly grin puts on a freckle, Huck was right. The golden dream of boyhood, the soft summer's day that Mark Twain invoked for the world in Tom and even more richly in Huck, was in fact an almost total recall of the halcyon days of his own childhood...
...Yugoslavia has learned to take seriously even the slightest rise in temperature in the Balkan tinder box. Last week diplomatic pulses in half a dozen world capitals thumped over a frontier fracas on a half-submerged sandbank in the unnavigable Evros River which, in one ten-mile stretch, forms the border between Soviet-dominated Bulgaria and U.S.-protected Greece...
...Calumet Farm's 3-to-5 favorite Mark-Ye-Well, 1⅛-mile, $100,000-added American Derby, by 2¼ lengths, after he took the lead in the stretch and lengthened it all the way home; at Chicago's Washington Park. The race hoisted Calumet's 1952 winnings to $1,091,262, gave Jockey Eddie Arcaro his 29th stakes victory of the year...
...state of New York, which has 13,757 miles of paved road, discovered that its cars and trucks, if placed bumper to bumper, would stretch for 14,676 miles. Meanwhile, the six-month-old multiple-lane New Jersey Turnpike, built to eliminate congestion and cross-traffic, had its 29th fatality...