Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harsh but just advocate of discipline, he imposed an iron discipline on himself. A drinker of strong spirits, he swore off hard liquor when war came, would sometimes stretch a glass of beer through a whole evening. In Washington, he lived aboard a ship in the Anacostia River instead of in comfortable quarters with his family, worked hard, savage hours in a small, Spartan office in the Navy Building. He took nonsense from no one, not even his commander in chief, became known as one of the few men in the Government who would resist the charms of Franklin Roosevelt...
Biggest international art fair in the world is the 61-year-old Venice Biennale, held on the quarter-mile stretch of pavilions that was once Venice's marine arsenal. This year the show is bigger than ever before−more than 5,000 works of art from 34 nations−but critics last week were grumbling that the "Biennale is going downhill." Wrote Italian Critic Leonardo Borgese: "The show leaves. . . a sense of emptiness and bitterness, a sense of humiliation; one feels all are guilty, and does not know precisely why." Replied an Italian museum director: "Whenever the critics...
...Killer." With free rein to use anything he had seen or heard, Donovan submitted about 20 or 30 pages of his manuscript for standard security clearance; otherwise he showed it to no Government official. In the home stretch of his 160,000-word writing job, he worked a 10 a.m.-to-3 a.m. schedule, left Harper no time to submit galley proofs on the last four chapters. Last week, as the results began simmering, Reporter Donovan relaxed with his wife Martha and his three children (Patricia, 13, Peter, 9, Amy, 8). "This was a killer," he said. "I wouldn...
...meat of the film, however, is the chase. Disney dug up some fine period rolling stock and set it racing madly along a stretch of the antiquated Tallulah Falls Railroad in northern Georgia. The epic sight of the bright-colored, majestic eight-wheelers, belching smoke and spinning their drivers, is enough to make moviegoers thoroughly dissatisfied with the pallid diesel streamliners of today...
...Kentucky Derby Winner Needles loafed along in last place for nearly a mile, then galloped full-out down the stretch to win the 88th running of the $119,650 Belmont Stakes last week and establish his claim as the nation's best three-year...