Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dangerous Decoy. Near Utah's Bear River Wildlife Refuge, where the bleak shadows of the Wasatch Mountains stretch toward Great Salt Lake, hunters could hardly shoot fast enough. Fat from a summer in the grainfields of western Canada, great flights of geese and fresh-water ducks made tempting targets (see color pages following). Bright, bobbing decoys lured the flyers down toward danger; artificial calls quacked to them as they passed; shotguns (usually 12 gauge) blasted broad patterns of destruction across the shallow reaches of the river. The miracle was that so many birds survived...
...defunct Buffalo Times, secretary to Buffalo's mayor, district manager of Buffalo's OPA office) before joining Bell as Larry Bell's assistant. An amateur chef, he cooked the meals for Bell executives when they stayed in the plant for days at a stretch rather than face angry pickets during a 1949 strike...
...Communist objective always has been, and still is, domination of the world. It will no more change than a leopard's spots. In my opinion, the best chance-if not the only chance-we have for peace now and over the long stretch is to stop Communism in its tracks. If we do nothing, the Reds will merely follow their own program for involving us in war and, they hope, crushing defeat...
...short, squat bridge perches across a shallow gully at Lo Wu, where Red China and British Hong Kong meet. Railroad tracks as well as a footpath stretch across the bridge, but until last week, no passenger had ridden across since 1949. The thousands of Chinese refugees, European missionaries and businessmen who have crossed the bridge with their wives and children since then have been forced to walk, or more frequently, to limp along the footpath bearing on their weary backs or in their hands those few possessions they were able to wrench from the Communist grasp...
...native custom has long puzzled anthropologists. Versed as they are in the world's habits from necking to nose-rubbing, the scholars have yet to figure out why the native women pierce their lips at girlhood, then put increasingly bigger straw and wood plugs in the holes to stretch their lips until they protrude like duck bills...