Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both the man and his achievements. Italians (according to the popular U.S. stereotype) are enthusiastic and impulsive; De Gasperi is withdrawn, often icily aloof. The language of Dante is a melting, musical tongue, and Italians traditionally make colorful orators, but De Gasperi is a rambling, unmusical speaker who can stretch a few scribbled notes into a 90-minute discourse. Italians are accustomed to the spectacular in politics -Garibaldi and his red-shirted 1,000; the Blackshirts marching on Rome; Palmiro Togliatti's Reds tearing up piazzas. Alcide de Gasperi disdains the theatrical and the violent, speaks softly, listens forbearingly...
...rapidly improving," testified General of the Army Omar Bradley before the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week. "... I know of no intelligence which reveals any change in attitude on the part of the Soviet Union or which would give us any reason to diminish or slow down or stretch out our preparedness effort." The same day President Eisenhower submitted to Congress a defense budget which, if approved, would sharply cut the programmed strength of the U.S. Air Force...
...even with interviewers from newspapers. "I talk English good," he said, when we were first introduced. "And I talk five languages too: English, my own French, Flemish--write this down," he broke off, pointing sharply at my notebook. "And, let's see, Flemish and Dutch and Swedish." began to stretch...
...Dancer was fourth, 2^ lengths behind, just turning into the stretch along the rail...
...Dancer was coming up strong. At the top of the stretch he passed the bay gelding Straight Face, passed the ridden-out Correspondent a few strides later. Running outside again, he had only Dark Star in front of him. Native Dancer had never been whipped-in eleven races Guerin had never given him more than a single hit with the bat. This time Guerin laid on, all the way down the stretch. The big grey colt came pounding on in one of his famous finishes. But this time his drive came too late; at the finish line Dark Star...