Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blackmail. The East's response was not pen notes but pinpricks. The incidents were small: e.g., West Germans were refused interzone passes to Berlin because "American imperialists are trying to split Germany"; British and U.S. patrols were temporarily barred from the no-mile stretch of Autobahn linking Berlin to West Germany. But each pinprick seemed to fit into an ominous Soviet stencil. The Reds were giving West Germans a glimpse of what might happen if they turn down the Soviet offer of "unity." Huffed Walter Ulbricht, East German Deputy Premier: "The day the peace contract is signed, West Berlin...
...government planned to sell to private bidders some 40,000 long-haul trucks and a network of garages and depots which the Laborites bought up at forced sales for $224 million over a four-year stretch of their reign. The Tory government could not hope to get back anywhere near that amount. For one thing, perhaps $70 million of the purchase price went for the good will built up by the former private owners-an asset the Tory government can hardly sell back...
Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, who keeps photographers scampering to think up new angles, posed for her latest: a picture in bed. A week after an emergency appendectomy she gave cameramen a painless, luxurious stretch, announced that after another month's rest she would be strong enough to brave the mists of Niagara Falls to work on her next movie...
Ward weakened slightly in the sixth, giving up a single to Northeastern's Dick Cox, who scored on a long double by centerfielder Frank McCabe. McCabe, however, was thrown out at third trying to stretch his hit on the throw-in. The Crimson got one more run in its half of the sixth, the Huskies two in the first half of the seventh, but Ward was never in any danger...
...exorbitant price a student was permitted to transport himself and one friend through a dark steamy atmosphere for the better part of four hours; that is a matter of individual taste. But when the regattas consider it their duty to put themselves in command of a public stretch of river front and to ordain the locations from which members of various organizations shall be permitted to view a public athletic spectacle then they have overstepped their bounds. They have not be thought themselves where they are. Impressed with the organized fun of a Hammonasset Day, imbued with the planned debauchery...