Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...yesterday's match, Schienmann staged a brilliant comeback, rallying from a 2-0 deficit in games. In that stretch, Schienmann shifted into an aggressive, less orderly style of play. He cut nearly every ball off at mid-court and forced Ben Heckscher of Williams to play from the backcourt where his drop shots and corner shots were less effective...
...staid lot who have generally similar tastes. They are not eight millionaires and a plumber, as Eisenhower's original choices were irreverently-but accurately-described. Though some are wealthy, most live unostentatiously. While one, Red Blount, is a qualified jet pilot, none of them is by any stretch a jet-setter. Their mode of living is mainly suburban middleclass, with strong emphasis on family life and informal entertaining at home. A possible exception to the pattern is New York Investment Banker Maurice Stans, the new Secretary of Commerce, who lives in a Fifth Avenue apartment overlooking Central Park...
...than local passports, black leaders in East Africa adamantly insist that the British should accept them. Britain has reacted against immigration-and its attendant demands on social services-with a new quota system, and Callaghan was hardly anxious to provoke another storm of Powellite racial tension by promising to stretch quotas...
...final, Nayar defeated Terrell, but only after Terrell had mounted his most serious challenge to Nayar's long-time domination in their personal direls, Terrell suffered cramps mid-way through the third game and was unable to stretch his leg muscles. After trailing 2-1 in games, and 10-2 in points, he made a brilliant comeback, only to lose in five games...
Through Canals. Hoping to reach the Gulf of Mexico, Krist threaded his way through cross-state canals. At the last lock along the 155-mile stretch, a suspicious tender called the FBI. Swiftly, a land, sea and air task force was mounted to track Krist down. With helicopters whirring above him Krist ran his boat aground on a crocodile and snake-infested strip of Gulf Coast land called Hog Island...