Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soaking up long-term investment capital and stiffening interest rates. When it appeared that the medicine might be too stiff, he promptly eased up on his tight-money policies. Nevertheless, Burgess still favors debt-lengthening, has managed to boost average public bond maturities by six months and hopes to stretch them further...
...dismal stretch the Giants lost 11 in a row. It was a test of fire for loyal followers, and many a diehard, headed for Coogan's Bluff, was heard to mutter lamely that he was going out to the ballpark, only because he needed a sunbath. The lard-encased Manhattan saloonkeeper, Toots Shor, once spoke the agony of all Giant fans in one gloomy flirtation with apostasy. "I been wonderin' lately," he told a friend. "I'm raising my kids to be Giant fans. I don't know whether I'm doing the right thing...
...from under his cap (Mays frequently loses his cap) to catch a sinking line drive, he reached back, caught his cap in one hand and the ball in the other. Against the Dodgers one day, he raced into right center after a long fly, snagged it with a prodigious stretch, spun completely around, off balance, and rifled a perfect strike to the plate to throw out the Dodgers' speedy Billy Cox. Around big-league locker rooms, that play is still referred to as "The Throw...
Land & Water. The valley of the Snake has become one of Idaho's richest farm areas; along a 200-mile stretch of the river, business is brisk, and crops (beets, potatoes, alfalfa, produce) grow green. Water made the difference. Teddy Roosevelt's 1902 Reclamation Act brought the water; since then, the U.S. Reclamation Bureau has built a $25 million complex of dams and canals (repayable from water and power revenue) to irrigate a million acres. Another homesteading project developed when, in 1947, a well digger struck a great underground river...
...sleek little (39 ft.) yawl Malay had finished the Newport-Bermuda race, "the thrash to the onion patch," the night before. Now she edged through Two Rock Passage into Hamilton Harbor. A small sloop drew abeam, and the Malay's skipper called across the stretch of water: "Who won the race?" The small-boat sailors slid past the yawl's counter and read the name on the stern. Their astonished answer drifted back: "Malay...