Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...open stretch of Massachusetts Bay is about 45 miles of tricky, often impossible water. The English Channel at its narrowest is 20 miles wide, though more swimmers often cover 25 miles when caught in the strong currents...
...Egypt who could give such an order and have it obeyed. Last week, further curbing some of his impatient lieutenants and the Moslem hotheads who would like to provoke a full-scale war with Israel, he endorsed United Nations efforts to create a buffer zone or stretch a barrier along the border dividing Israel and Egypt at the hypersensitive Gaza strip. There is an intimate connection between Nasser and The Strip. It was there that the fuse was lit to Egypt's 1952 revolution, and it was Gamal Nasser who struck the match...
Back in the heat of summer, when the American League pennant race was still relatively cool, a grey-thatched seer named Casey Stengel squinted into the future. He saw his New York Yankees and the Cleveland Indians scrambling through the stretch drive toward the flag. "That Cleveland," he said, with magnificent scorn for the team that last year had beaten him out of his sixth championship in a row. "I hope everybody beats them. Cleveland! All they got is Wynn and Score for pitchers. Detroit! They been a disappointment. But they'll be doing me a favor if they...
...make matters worse, Ward was getting the breaks. On the sixth, he overshot the green, saw his ball bounce off a movie sound truck and fall safe. After an "approximate" 66 on the first round (he did not actually hole out at several greens), he breezed into the home stretch. Hyndman hung on, won his only hole of the day (with a 75-ft. putt), then halved five in a row to stay alive. Starting the back nine, he was nine down. Both men shot a par four. Harvie Ward, after one of the most spectacular performances in National Amateur...
Still Running. Even the stretch-run jitters could not explain the Yankee errors. Even the voluble Casey was speechless with rage. This was worse than Baltimore, where, five days before, the Yanks had blown another and wound up blaming it on the umpires (see cut). It was hard to believe New York was still in the league. But the Yankees knew better. Next day, they gave Cleveland a rough afternoon, split a double header, stayed ii games back and managed to remind Manager Al Lopez pace-setting Indians that they were still running hard in the pennant race...