Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lanky Eli righthander had retired seven straight going into the seventh, and his two-run lead seemed secure. But Akillian led off the stretch frames with a lefty frights to deep left. When pinch. hitted Ail Switzer followed with a single to counter, Akillian came in and Beresford went...
Author Bissell, 38, helps run his father's clothing factory in Dubuque, Iowa these days, but once he did an outdoor man's work: he was a river pilot. He wrote a novel about it two years ago (A Stretch on the River-TIME, July 24, 1950), and the river descriptions and river lingo rang fair and true. He writes just as effectively in The Monongahela and even gives a fair amount of his secret away: "In order to have a river in your blood, unforgettably and forever . . . you have to work on her for wages...
...congressional inquiry to find out what "our actual production of munitions is," and whether the stretch-out is a "calculated risk" or an exposure of the nation to "unwarranted danger...
...Stretch-Out. The Truman Administration's stretch-out of defense-production goals, warned Baruch, may prove an invitation to disaster. "Far from slowing down, our security requires that we step up our defenses both in speed and scale . . . The whole defense program should be reviewed to determine whether too heavy an emphasis has not been placed on building new facilities and too little on turning out weapons . . . No aggressor was ever stopped by blueprints...
...reckoned that by that time the Third Reich would have fought and lost a war). His calculation was close. He spent ten years in concentration camps, most of them at Dachau of gas-chamber notoriety. There he ran a web of anti-Nazi conspiracy. He served one nine-month stretch in solitary, and ended another with a 28-day hunger strike that brought ruin to his digestive system...