Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Battlefield, last year's money-winning-est two-year-old, had already been declared out of the Derby. ROUGH 'N TUMBLE, the California champion, was on the shelf with splints. Greentree's well-liked BIG STRETCH had been publicly embarrassed in a Keeneland prep when an upstart named RUHE gave him a three-length beating. Out in Nevada, some legalized handbook players were still contemplating the 30-to-1 odds offered against the chances of BILL BAILEY, a horse that died last month in Hot Springs, Arkansas...
...good piece of mechanism. I hope we don't have to use it." Next day, with a French motorcycle escort, Eisenhower drove at a 50-mile-an-hour clip to Coblenz. The French, who do not forget that they are the conquerors, had cleared a 60-mile stretch of road of all traffic; even an ambulance and a funeral waited while Ike passed. In the crowd at Coblenz a German youth jostled a French cavalry colonel. The officer pushed the youth, threatened to slap his face, then turned to hear Ike make an address on the importance of allied...
With Battlefield and Big Stretch unwilling to try again against the horse that had beaten them in a six-furlong conditioner five days before, the Colando colt seemed to be a cinch. But the mile-and-a-sixteenth Experimental was an entirely different matter. Starting in the outside post position, and carrying top weight of 126 Ibs., he never made it a race. Uncle Miltie finished eighth, five lengths (i.e., 4½ & a nose & a head) behind the winner, King Ranch's Sonic, which carried only a feathery 105 Ibs. The time...
...practice, a single fast airplane could lay a line of Grasshoppers all across a thinly inhabited stretch of enemy territory. They would lie dormant for a while. Then, just before an important bombing mission was due to take off, they would rise on their folding legs, poke out their antennas, and tell the oncoming bombers what kind of weather to expect over the target...
More than anything else, students allege, this rule preserves his prosperity of 405 feet of sidewalk and stores known as Green Street. This stretch, bordering the west side of the campus, boasts 19 shops to be precise; four calories, eight clothing shops, two shoe stores, a gift shop, a hairdresser, a bicycle shop, a stationary store, and as all-purpose establishment known as The Dell...