Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must dress as they would in church. Under the present Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes, Pierre-Marie Théas, the grotto has regained much of its 'original rustic simplicity; he replaced the ornate altar with a simple stone slab, took down the iron grille that used to stretch across the front of the cave, removed all but a few of the hundreds of crutches and orthopedic braces left behind by sufferers who found relief at Lourdes...
Seven-thirty that Saturday evening and the entire class, bathed, brushed, shined, combed, and shivering, hurries through the dark night and biting wind across the campus to Prospect Street, where the grounds of sixteen plush clubhouses--and the not-so-plush Prospect Cooperative Club--stretch before them. The luckiest ones have received several bids, and join one of the big five...
...employees. In 1950 there were 8,807 telephones in Huntsville; now there are 25,678. Building permits totaled $2,500,000 in 1950; last year the total was $10,767,000 (not including the $20 million building program at Redstone itself). Memorial Parkway, a new four-lane stretch of U.S. 231, is lined with housing developments, more than a dozen modern motels, a $3,000,000 shopping plaza (with a delicatessen featuring Wiener schnitzel), and two new schools. A pride of the community is the new 55-piece Huntsville Civic Orchestra-with Werner Kuers, one of Von Braun...
Flight from Temptation. The grandson, Alexandre Jr., inherited the huge Dumas frame and champagne padding, the Dumas courage and independence-only the exuberant vitality was missing. Dumas père could write for twelve hours at a stretch without even feeling tired, but Dumas fils found writing an "exhausting physical labor," which caused dizziness and cramps. Senior lavished money on courtesans, wept his eyes out when they died-and rushed on to the arms of his latest conquest. But his bastard son, haunted since childhood "by the problem of seduced women and natural children," decided at an early age that...
...think." From his position as elder statesman of U.S. jockeys, the great Eddie Arcaro is more charitable. "He's a good rider," says Eddie. "There's no doubt of it. His records show that. As to his uneven riding, the only time he does that is in the stretch. Hartack's always been good, and I think he's improved now over what he was. Some people think he's cocky, but he doesn't mean it the way a lot of people interpret it. He don't believe anybody can beat him doing anything. Whatever he does, he does...