Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...widened avenue will have two 36-foot lanes with a five-foot center strip. Footage to widen the 65-foot-wide stretch from Harvard Square to Porter Square will be taken from the sidewalks, DiNatale said...
...bond market is still in the throes of a shake-out that Wall Streeters compare to the '29 crash in stocks. With the benefit of hindsight, bond experts lay the blame on Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson. Eager to stretch out the public debt, i.e., lengthen the maturing period of Government bonds, Anderson brought out medium and long-term bond issues in June, a poor time because the market was at the top of a speculative binge that had boosted the price of U.S. bonds (TIME, June 30). Many, gambling on a continued rise, bought the new bonds with nothing...
Along Washington's coastline, from the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the Columbia River, "only the 43 miles between the Ozette River and the Hoh remain unshadowed by a road and still bordered by unspoiled forest land. Yet, in the entire country, this is the biggest such stretch we have left." The speaker: William O. Douglas, 59, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and the nation's foremost man scout. Occasion: a three-day hike from Lake Ozette to Lapush, paced by the Justice-leading his wife, daughter, twelve newsmen and 55 Boone companions-in demonstration...
Never slow to slip into a good thing, the fashion industry already counts more than a dozen firms making tights, selling all they can produce at prices ranging around $4 to $5 for adults. Most are made of stretch nylon, come in a rainbow of colors-witch black, seaweed green, wild teal and fire orange. They are often worn with shell shoes, sneakers or moccasins. Says a Detroit buyer: "Did you ever hear of warm, comfortable, fashionable glamour? Well, this...
...After a stretch in the navy and in Parliament (he cozened the Scottish voters by dancing Highland reels and, on one occasion, importing 15 beautiful maidens of the Clan Macleod for a party), truculent Lord George Gordon became president of the Protestant Association. Gordon was a furious enemy of the Catholic Relief Act, passed in 1778 to ease the lot of English Catholics. One June day in 1780 the association met in St. George's Fields, 50,000 strong. After a speech by Gordon, they marched eight abreast to Parliament to demand repeal of the Relief...