Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grays downed Wigg with a stretch drive in which it scored ten points while holding the losers scoreless. Wigg had rallied from an 11-point deficit to draw even at 37-all with three minutes to go, but the final burst decided the issue...
...chief correspondence investigator, the Hoover group wisely chose tall and talented Mona Sheppard, who has been trying for years to simplify and improve the style of Government letters, and to reduce the almost endless files (24 million cu. ft. of them in 2,000,000 file cabinets -enough to stretch in a single drawer from the Pentagon to the Kremlin). Among the task-force recommendations is a new correspondence style board with authority over letter-perfection in every nook and cranny of the Government. Likeliest candidate for chairman: Mona Sheppard...
...main military academy, and Marcos decided to become an officer too. His nearsightedness barred him from his first choice, the air force, so he took the school's two-year course in artillery, and at 18 got his first command, a battery of two venerable cannon. After a stretch of teaching at the academy, Pérez Jiménez finished his own military education with three years at the Peruvian War College in Lima. By 1945 he was a major, and-like 16 other young war-school graduates -rebelliously resentful that his studies had brought him only...
...method is not the Dale Carnegie method of making friends and influencing people." Was Noel Field a Communist, as testified by ex-Communist Courier Whittaker [Witness'] Chambers? Said Hermann: "I have never known whether Noel was . . ." Could Hermann explain why Noel and Herta, after doing a five-year stretch in a Hungarian prison, elected last November to stay in "asylum" in Hungary? And what about Erika, last reported to be languishing in a slave-labor camp in arctic Russia? Tearful Hermann Field was "afraid I'm not much help in an explanation of the whole Field case." Suggested...
...fell almost 20% during 1954. This was partly due to high prices, partly to the growing popularity of instant coffee, which has come up from a mere drop in the cup to claim 25% of the U.S. market. Not only does brewing coffee and dehydrating it at the factory stretch the beans more than 50%, but the housewife wastes less instant coffee, thus the nation is getting far more cups per pound...