Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Land of the Free. It was the whites who brought the first large group of Asians to Africa rather than engage black workers on the building of the great Uganda Railway-"the two ribbons of rust," as Disraeli called it, "that stretch from the Indian Ocean to Lake Victoria." Natal landowners also began importing Indian "coolies" to work their languishing sugar plantations. In four years Natal's sugar exports multiplied 33 times. The indentured Indians became settlers in their own right, and other immigrants-the "free" or "passenger" Indians-flocked to make a new life for themselves...
...opposing the proposition, "Resolved: That this house thanks God for the Atlantic," members of the Harvard Debate Council pointed out that "The Atlantic is a pretty inactive stretch of real estate," and "a dull, dirty ditch that prevents us from seeing each other as we really...
...were in, Gordon, Dave Brahms, and Lee Barnes took the mark against Army's Dave Gray and Ron Salter in the critical 440 race. After Barnes had set the early pace, Gordon took the lead with 200 yards to go and held off Salter's challenge with a thundering stretch drive. Brahms caught Salter to take second, and from then on the Crimson could do little wrong...
...street, and the two Jews he has been harboring, are hauled off. In a scene more tension-packed than anything Alfred Hitchcock ever devised, two Germans search the factory by night after a burglar has broken in. As the refugees huddle breathlessly in the loft, the suspicious Germans stretch out their investigation for long, agonizing minutes. As they prowl, Stevens' camera flashes to a shot of the family cat, perched on the drainboard. its nose prodding a small funnel toward the edge, its rear leg scuffing against a plate. The fugitives-and the audience-can do nothing but watch...
...African Rifles soon followed. After one plane landed at Fort Hill, near Karonga, the nationalists covered the airfield with barrels, stumps and boulders, effectively putting it out of action. In Blantyre police and rioters collided in the streets, and blacks, hiding in the tall grass along a stretch of road that was promptly tagged the Missile Mile, ambushed and stoned cars. At Lilongwe the King's African Rifles fired on a crowd, while planes dropped tear gas bombs...