Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pursuits within the framework of the U.N., the two countries agreed that 1) the U.S. will continue to use the strategically important Dhahran Air Field in Saudi Arabia for the next five years, in return for which 2) the U.S. will provide economic assistance and, over a five-year stretch, some $50 million in arms...
...size of Texas. Its major regions are 1) French West Africa, whose eight provinces run from the tropical swamps of the Ivory Coast to the heart of the Sahara, are inhabited by nearly 19 million people who speak 120 languages; and 2) French Equatorial Africa, whose four provinces stretch from Libya in the north to the Atlantic Ocean in the south, produce a major share of the world's plywood. Unlike Madagascar, whose 4,800,000 inhabitants launched a bloody revolt against France in 1947, Black Africa has just begun to emerge from Stone Age politics...
...Late-lingering worries that the blood clot that almost killed Summer Tan as a two-year-old might have had lasting effects were lost when Mrs. John Galbreath's great bay horse galloped down the stretch at Hialeah to put away Calumet Farms's Bardstown by three lengths and win the $60,900 McLennan Handicap...
With the meet close going into the relays, coach Bill McCurdy gambled on a quick victory, by throwing his best men into the mile relay. Leadoff man Dick Wharton handed second man Dave Brahms a five-yard lead, but disaster struck in the back stretch. Yale's second man Bob Kirschner attempted to pass Brahms on the inside at the same time that Brahms decided to move in. Brahms went flying, and by the handoff, was 15 yards behind second-running Princeton. No foul was called...
...will stretch ourselves to accept as many qualified applicants as possible," Bender asserted. This will not affect the number of students the University will admit by its customary admissions policies, he continued...