Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...encircled outpost of Khe Sanh. There are alternate means of supplying Khe Sanh, but Route 1, which connects with Khe Sanh via Route 9, is the best, and will thus not be left gladly in enemy hands. One of Giap's aims in his general offensive is to stretch U.S. lines?and U.S. troop deployments?as thin and as wide as he can, forcing General Westmoreland to make difficult choices of priority...
...preserve since Coach Honoré Bonnet, 48, a feisty little ex-army officer, took over the team in 1959. Bonnet taught his racers the aerodynamic "oeuf" position that won a gold medal in the downhill for Jean Vuarnet at Squaw Valley in 1960. He dressed them in slick nylon stretch suits instead of baggy trousers and tops, switched them from wood to more maneuverable metal skis, made training an intensive, year-round proposition, stressed strength and speed over the niceties of technique...
Tightfisted Buyers. It wasn't easy. Expansion-minded Sunset was saddled with several white-elephant projects and mountainous debts ($130 million last June). To reduce that burden, Rozet persuaded lenders to stretch out some loans and cancel others in return for undeveloped acreage. Last November he put $50 million of Sunset's realty holdings up for auction in Los Angeles, but buyers proved so tightfisted that he accepted bids for only $6,000,000 worth. That netted Sunset a mere $300,000 above the $5,700,000 debt on the properties involved. But the company still had some...
Over a five-and-one-half minute stretch, Colgan threw in five field goals, including two long jumpers from the corner, two tricky drives around Gallagher, and a short pop shot. When he sat down with his fourth personal foul at the 5:50 mark the Indians held a 37-29 advantage...
Back to full strength, the Crimson began to shell Clarkson netminder John Miller unmercifully in a sustained stretch of offensive brilliance. Only Miller's countervailing brilliance prevented several goals. The period erased any lingering doubts about Harvard's Cornell trauma...