Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...squash team sneaked past one tough opponent last week and just barely squeezed by another to stretch its winning streak to seven. Elsewhere among the Yardling teams, the winners (track, wrestling, and swimming), continued to win, the losers (basketball) continued to lose, and hockey maintained an erratic record by splitting...
...Traffic Jams. Those who fled earlier would hardly recognize the place today. Many of San Juan's slums remain, but they are gradually giving way to handsome low-cost housing developments. Four-lane highways stretch out from the capital, and are clogged with the kind of traffic jams that come from having one car for every twelve people...
Even more novel is the artificial grass of the court itself. It is made by a Japanese patented process originally devised for doormats. The plastic is poured into a square mold with 800 indentations per square inch. When the drying plastic is pulled away, the nubs stick, and stretch into "blades" of grass. Then the squares are laid on an asphalt court, just as a homeowner might lay tile on a kitchen floor. The result is a durable and resilient surface, which is divot-proof, affords better footing and less leg fatigue and keeps both balls and players free from...
...ball games in Chavez Ravine, but leave before the seventh inning. Get a pool table, and don't give a party unless you have a mahogany keg on the patio with draft Michelob. Get a Yorkshire terrier. Learn to think. Stay out of toreador pants and stretch pants; wear Jax slacks...
Most champion women skiers cut a fairly sturdy figure in stretch pants. It is a shame, of course. But a girl who grows up in the Alps is likely to start skiing as soon as she can walk, and by the time she is ready for the Olympics, she bulges with muscles. Europeans have learned to live with such disappointments; they have even learned to expect them. So imagine their surprise last week when Europe's best got trounced by a slim-ankled snow bunny from Oregon who is undeniably a girl...