Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head of the builders estimated from blue prints that each floor of No. 10-12 will house 23--in three single rooms, four doubles and four triples. One corridor will stretch the whole length of the buildings, with three or four washrooms opening off it, Trottenberg said...
...Kkuko Toguri d'Aquino, more infamous as Tokyo Rose, whose seductive broadcasts in World War II aimed at demoralizing Allied forces in the Pacific but actually entertained them, wound up her ten-year treason stretch (with time off for rosy behavior) at the Federal women's pen in Alderson, W. Va. Although Rose was until her conviction a U.S. citizen (she was born of Japanese parents in Los Angeles on the Fourth of July, 1916), the Federals immediately moved to deport her. This raised a fine legal point: Is Rose now an undesirable resident alien, perhaps...
...first straightaway he flashed, arms swinging in time with his skates. At the turn his speed pulled him wide; he leaned hard to stay on course. Under his flying feet, steel blades brushed snow at the lane's edge. One more turn and he tore into the stretch...
...dramatic enactment of Dostoevsky's short story, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man. Well acted by Canadian John Drainie, it had what TV shows rarely have-an imaginative combination of literate vigor and moral point, plus a quality of probing wonder against which any televiewer could stretch his own mind...
Already facing a five-year stretch for evading payment of $28,532 in federal income taxes, Manhattan's Italian-born Gambler Frank Costello, floating loose on $50,000 bail, gingerly peeked at a suspicious Christmas greeting from New York State revenooers. If he expected the worst, he got it: a claim on Costello for a jarring $190,982.24 in unpaid state income taxes. Further robbing Costello of holiday cheer, the federals recently vetoed his plea to let him get out of town, thus cancelled his annual pilgrimage to Hot Springs, Ark., where he might have shaken off his perennial...