Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Octave Stretch. In Columbus, after completing a four-year prison term for stealing a saxophone, Milton Lee Littleton was sent back to the pen for one to 15 years for stealing an alto saxophone...
Only 600 yards across the West River from the Portuguese colony of Macao lies a Red Chinese people's commune on Lappa Island, and across this narrow stretch of water last week could be seen a chilling glimpse behind the Bamboo Curtain...
Despite the lack of competition from B.U., two of the middle distance races produced exciting stretch battles, as Dyke Benjamin barely managed to hold on to defeat teammate Jed Fitzgerald in the mile and Art Cahn needed a finishing spurt to fight off Gus Schumacher...
...airlines climbing out of the labor fog last week was National Airlines, whose routes stretch along the Atlantic Coast to Florida. On Dec. 10 National will inaugurate the first domestic jet airliner service with daily flights on the rich New York-Miami run. Using 600-m.p.h. Boeing 707s under a complicated lease-stock deal with Pan American, which already flies jets across the Atlantic, National will make the 1,100-mile run in 2 hr. 15 min. To make sure that it can fly jets, National signed contracts with its pilots, flight engineers and mechanics running into...
...than half a million sets within range of New York's WRCA-TV click on at 9 a.m. for Hi Mom and its highly successful potpourri of sense and nonsense. For prekindergarten children, there are songs and games, puppets and magic; for mothers, there are health tips and stretch-the-budget menus. For late-rising males, who write her lots of letters, there is the elfin charm and shining morning face of Shari Lewis herself...