Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From St. Petersburg, Fla. (where he canceled his booking at the Tides Hotel because it discriminates against Jews) to Philadelphia, Pa. (where he avoided the Warwick Hotel because of a labor dispute), Vice President Nixon moved across the eastern half of the U.S. last week in the home stretch of his 15,000-mile tour. He scolded an ardent Republican lady who asked questions about Adlai Stevenson's divorce ("I think that any personal life of a candidate should not be a proper political issue"). He sidestepped the political credits and debits of the World Series ("I lean...
...Ribot, the Italian wonder horse (TIME, July 30), unbeaten in 15 starts, ran away with the race in the stretch. A tired six lengths back came Britain's Talgo. Career Boy was a well-beaten fourth...
Whatsoever a Man Soweth. Near Mineral Point, Wis., love-struck Farmer Jack Kenyon Jr. doctored parts of a quarter-mile stretch of hillside with fertilizer, persuaded his beloved to elope with him after the hill turned green with the 300-ft. letters: JULIE...
...Monaco couldn't brighten the United Nations Handicap at Atlantic City after rain softened the course and the favored Swaps was scratched with an injured forefoot. However, C. V. Whitney's Career Boy ran the race of his life to catch Find and Mr. Gus in the stretch...
...heat of inspiration, Vincent Van-Gogh could put in a straight eleven-hour stretch before his easel, then sit down and write: "These colors give me extraordinary exaltation. I have no thought of fatigue; I shall do another picture this very night, and I shall bring it off. I have a terrible lucidity at moments when nature is so beautiful; I am not conscious of myself any more, and the pictures come to me as in a dream...