Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appearance was no handicap. A tall, weedy man with the slouchy good looks of a boy down from school, he fitted in easily with the working side of race-track life. He could be found of mornings consorting with exercise boys, grooms, dockers and indescribables around the back stretch of various race tracks. Later, when he got into the management of Baltimore's Pimlico track, he did something that was even worse; he took advice extensively from newspapermen...
There are no professionals in track, at least according to popular theory. One often wonders, then, just why a fine runner like Fred Wilt places his head on the chopping block twice a week for over a four month stretch...
...squawking early and was plagued by unemployment, got a bigger slice. Its steel quota, originally set for 800,000 cars, was boosted to 900,000. But there was a big catch: the industry will get only enough copper and aluminum for 800,000 cars, will have to stretch it or find substitutes. So far, substitutes have not proved too practical. General Motors, which started using coated steel radiators seven months ago, found them rusting so badly that G.M. estimated it would spend $5,000,000 replacing the defective units...
...with three or four cups of tea, ends it with a straight gin before dinner at 7. In between, he sometimes dictates up to 2,200 words, delivers frequent talks over the BBC, only regrets that he can no longer walk more than five miles at a stretch. Whatever shocks he has left to give to the 20th century he is putting into his autobiography, to be published after his death. There are no shockers in his latest book, New Hopes for a Changing World. In it, Bertrand Russell returns pretty much to the faith of his fathers: 19th century...
Civilized Pallor. English Novelist Percy Howard Newby is another writer who has mastered the basic problems of his craft but can't seem to let his talent stretch. His Young May Moon (TIME, Jan. 15, 1951), a novel about the troubles of a young boy when his mother dies, had most of the virtues of current English writing: a silky style, warmth toward simple people, a quick eye for oddities of behavior. His new novel, A Season in England, is equally gifted, equally minor...