Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...considerable risk of weakening an important U.S. position : in much of Asia, such a move would be regarded as a first step toward an eventual reversal of Washington's "tough China" policy-a step which the Peking-style China Lobby will do its best to stretch into diplomatic recognition of the Peking regime, its seating in the United Nations and the consequent downgrading of the Chiang Kai-shek government...
Kishi is a Japanese leader of whom the U.S. is going to be hearing a lot. A staunch conservative, he is the first postwar Japanese Premier whose political record (which includes a three-year stretch in Tokyo's Sugamo Prison as a war criminal) does not permit his opponents to accuse him of being a puppet...
...order would end the Air Force system of awarding contracts for long-lead, hard-to-produce plane and missile components before Congress allocates funds for the production of the entire weapon. If the directive is rigidly carried out, protested Air Force Secretary James H. Douglas, "large-scale terminations and stretch-outs of contracts would be necessary." Douglas warned that for fiscal 1958 the directive would eliminate $3.4 billion in plane and missile contracts and $800 million in other Air Force orders...
...simply a chance to prove his hard-earned skills. Short years ago the dark-skinned Spanish nobleman was known for his heavy-foot driving, the careless speed that sent his cars tumbling off the track as often as they finished. Now he knew better. He had learned that every stretch of road, every curve has its optimum speed, that a fraction too little would surely lose, that a shade too much might mean disaster...
...posted speed limit of sixty miles an hour. It should shorten the trip to New York by at least a half an hour or even more for the intrepid college motorist. The chief advantage of the road for the New York traveler is that it cuts out the bleak stretch comprising Routes 9 and 20 to the Wilbur Cross Parkway...