Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During one ten-hour stretch in Florida, the President inspected the new Army-Air Force Strike Command headquarters, made three speeches in Tampa, flew to Miami for another. A sparse, unenthusiastic crowd appeared on the 71-mile route of his motorcade into Tampa, and his receptions were cool...
...entire night, miserably toting the incriminating statuettes in a suitcase, not knowing whether to throw them or themselves into the Seine and not quite daring to do either. Eventually, Apollinaire had them returned to the museum, faced the police, and was let off after a five-day stretch in prison. He wrote six poems about the experience, but he was deeply hurt by it, Steegmuller reports, because a police official referred to him as "scum...
...total on record. Their attacks cost the government 925 dead and wounded-again, the highest toll of any week of the war. Communist casualties were estimated at 740, and the guerrillas captured 450 weapons while losing only 140. The worst government setback since the coup occurred in a swampy stretch of the Mekong Delta 100 miles southwest of Saigon, where a band of Viet Cong ambushed an entire government company with mortars and machine guns. Of 130 men, 55 were killed and 34 wounded, six listed as missing. The Viet Cong escaped with 71 American weapons. In coastal...
...serious bachelor, Barghoorn liked nothing better than to hole up for a ten-hour stretch in his top-floor office at Yale's Hall of Graduate Studies. There, amidst bundles of old laundry and discarded razor blades, he meticulously pored over books, clippings and back issues of Pravda. Russian-speaking Barghoorn knew his subject firsthand. From 1942 until 1947 he was a press attache at the U.S. embassy in Moscow. To avoid trouble, Barghoorn deliberately did not carry a camera during five trips to Russia between 1956 and last March, when he arranged for scholarly exchanges or gathered information...
...mine owners, who used to boast to foreign visitors that the Mikawa was an "underground palace," could have retorted that government inspectors had found Mikawa to be among the best-equipped mines in the country. The government could point out that the stretch of track where the collision occurred was equipped with modern safety devices-but they proved useless because the entire chain of events, from the derailment of the freight cars to the arrival of the third train, took less than 30 seconds...