Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parts. The first row of the crowd was cleanly decapitated. Twenty yards away, the chassis cut another swath. Gasoline took fire; then the Mercedes' magnesium-alloy body went up in a searing white flame. Levegh's headless corpse was burned to a crisp. A 400-sq. yd. stretch of gay and cheering people became a black, hysterical horror...
Most of the money will be spent in the International Rapids sections, a 46-mile stretch of river on the New York-Ontario border. Two canals, one eight miles long, the other one mile long, will be built around the rapids, and a system of power dams will be set up, with their output divided equally between the Province of Ontario and New York state. Elsewhere along the waterway, dredging and modernization of existing locks and canals will be done so that a minimum 27-ft. channel will eventually run all the way from the Atlantic to the western...
...home stretch of her Far Eastern tour in behalf of overseas blind, Helen Keller, an indomitable 74, arrived in Burma, was promptly introduced to Premier U Nu. She explored his face with her sensitive hands, pronounced him "a philosopher and a poet." Later, meeting reporters in Rangoon, Helen Keller was asked by Roving Journalist Vincent (Rage of the Soul) Sheean how she felt about one of Playwright George Bernard Shaw's loftier dicta, which, as Sheean recalled, went: "Of all Americans, Miss Keller is the least blind and deaf." Miss Keller replied: "That is not what he actually said...
...field broke cleanly on the first try. Downhill to Tattenham Corner, Acropolis was moving well in fourth place; Phil Drake was slogging along in the pack, 20 lengths behind the leader. Uphill into the stretch, Irish-bred Panaslipper (100 to 1) charged into the lead on the outside. "I thought I was home and dried," said Panaslipper's Jockey Jim Eddery. Then Phil Drake came on. The big-hearted son of Admiral Drake slid past as if the field had slowed to a trot. Suzy Volterra's red and white silks crossed under the wire a length...
...Scheele, were in huddles all week long, much of the time with an advisory committee of top virologists, trying to figure out what to do. One bright suggestion, from state health officials: try giving only 1½ drops (Vw cc.) of vaccine, instead of a whole cubic centimeter, to stretch the supply. Furthermore, inject it not into the muscle, as now, but under the skin or between the skin's layers (in hopes that this is less likely to provoke paralysis). At week's end the advisers and PHS decided against this course because it is untested...