Word: stretch
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Tunisia (pop. 3,700,000), which is the smallest, happiest and quietest of the three French possessions, and the most advanced toward independence. Besides Algeria's inhospitable plateaus, this is a broad stretch of country sloping down through grain fields, vineyards and great olive groves to the sea. It is the classic Ifriqiyeh, which gave its name to the whole continent. From Hannibal and Scipio to Rommel and Patton, soldiers have grappled for its strategical coasts, but the present Bey of Tunis, Sidi Mohammed el Amin, 74, belongs to a dynasty that has reigned for 250 years...
After four days on his Gettysburg farm, the President looked relaxed and happy. It was the first time he had really been able to stretch his legs at the farm, and his first respite from his heavy duties around the White House and at the Geneva conference since late April. He looked around with obvious pride: the corn stood nine feet high in some fields, and the contoured hay, wheat and oat fields had been stripped of the harvest. The pastures looked a little parched by the midsummer sun, but a good, drenching rain would (and did, later...
...complicated problem of international control . . . one cannot but say at the same time that the real effectiveness of such measures would not be great. During unofficial talks with the leaders of the U.S. Government, we straightforwardly declared that aero-photography cannot give the expected results, because both countries stretch over vast territories in which, if desired, one can conceal anything...
Atomic Cannon. Last week Okinawa was no longer anybody's junkyard. Four-lane highways lace the island. Modern typhoon-proof buildings dot the lush hills. On the seaside flatlands, Army warehouses stretch for serried miles. Hillsides are honeycombed with underground ammunition dumps. Offshore, sleek F-84s practice simulated A-bomb drops. And as the final cap to its new significance, the Army last week landed atomic cannon on Okinawa, the first in the Far East...
...lost) and hitting (.376 at week's end) with astonishing skill ever since. With Pee Wee Reese, Junior Gilliam and Carl Furillo all doing their share, there is hardly a chance that the team can pick up its old habit of relaxing and folding in the stretch. Above all, Campy is back in shape. For two weeks the Dodgers fretted while he recovered from a loose bone spur in his knee; now he functions with his old, Buddha's efficiency. Last week he was back behind the plate to help a couple of rookie pitchers, Don Bessent...