Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taking associates whose records may be somewhat soiled." ¶ Tell the world our aims and intentions. "They are honorable and we should make them known." ¶ Step up mobilization at homemobilize 6,000,000 men into the armed forces, increase the budget to $100 billion, stretch the work week to 44 or 48 hours...
...Experimental Free Handicap, Jockey Club Handicapper John B. Campbell gave his weighty opinion. At the top of Campbell's list (with 126 Ibs.) stood Pennsylvania-bred Uncle Miltie,† winner of the Champagne and Wakefield Stakes. Other top weights: Belmont Futurity Winner Battlefield and Pimlico Futurity Winner Big Stretch (each 124 Ibs.), To Market (121 Ibs.), Battle Morn...
...adult viewers are soon lost in its trackless, pseudo-technical doubletalk ("Forty-seven degrees inclination, speed seven miles per second; temperature calibrated at zero three; interior pressure stable at nine oh nine"), or by the sudden mid-program appearance on Captain Video's "Scanner" of a five-minute stretch of western movie. Du Mont's Vice President James L. Caddigan, who created Captain Video in 1949, explains: "The western is there to give us the pace and action that we can't get in a live studio production. The hero of the western is always supposed...
...Ponder broke characteristically late, along with Noor and Hill Prince. All the early action was up front, where Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's filly, Next Move, was setting a blistering pace, closely followed by Palestinian and Assault. Noor got moving on the turn (see cut), blazed down the stretch to win by a length over Palestinian. Hill Prince was three lengths farther back, with Next Move fourth, Ponder fifth. Noor's drive set a track record of 1:59 4/5 for the mile and a quarter, and made him the leading money-winner of the year...
...capture the nightmarish quality of Germany's disintegration in defeat. The Harper Prize of $10,000 went to Debby, Max Steele's sentimental first novel about a bemused little woman with a big heart and a feeble mind. A shirt manufacturer from Iowa, Richard Bissell, wrote A Stretch on the River, a first novel about Mississippi River boatmen, and got as much tang into his account as anyone since Mark Twain...