Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just the patsies from Northwestern," he taunted his players. It worked. This year aroused Wildcats have won their first three games (Washington State, Stanford, Minnesota). On the first three plays Michigan backs were thrown for 17 yds. in losses. Northwestern scored a fantastic four touchdowns in a seven-minute stretch before Parseghian emptied his bench to temper the slaughter. Final score: Northwestern 55, Michigan...
...first love, flying. His Canadian-born hero, Johnny Pascoe, has been barnstorming the world since 1915 and, now in his 60s, operates a small airfield at back-country Buxton in Tasmania. Flying a mercy mission to rescue a child stricken with appendicitis, Pascoe crashes on a barren stretch of the Tasmanian coast. His skull is fractured, and he is tended only by the child's distraught mother, but his friends rally round. Chief of these is Ronnie Clarke, who volunteers to fly in a doctor through rough weather, over mountains and along the unmapped coast...
...flown in by DC-4; Fuller provided one that could be assembled in 48 hours. Covered with polyester Fiberglas, geodesic domes proved just the thing for the DEW Line radomes. Says he, with the satisfaction of the man whose mousetrap has at last clicked: "The DEW Line radomes stretch from western Alaska to Baffin Island, and the Marine Corps has almost 1,000 domes in use, some in the Antarctic. North Pole, South Pole, I'm all around the world...
...stretch from the sixth until the 10th, Spahn retired 14 straight Yankees. Ford, who had the edge in the early going, stumbled in the eighth when he tired and gave way to Ryne Duren...
...entirely unexpected. Susan was the third Singer child in five years to die, without warning, in the same way. In 1953 there was Barbara, a normal, vivacious girl of nearly ten. She was on her way to school when a neighbor saw her rise on her toes, stretch her arms and drop to the sidewalk, dead. In 1956 there was Billy, a strong, spirited boy of two. He was heard to sigh in bed one night and next morning was found dead. Of the four children born to Clarice and Edward Singer (a prosperous plumbing supply dealer), only Steven...