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Word: stretch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poor fellah's daughter who started out posing as a boy-because proper Arab girls did not then perform in public-Um Kalthoum as a child often sang Koranic songs for five or ten hours at a stretch. Her pay: 1$ per performance. At 15, she bought her first dress, later switched from religious to romantic songs, and instantly became a Pan-Arabic institution. King Farouk awarded her Egypt's highest civilian decoration, and she reciprocated by singing political songs, first, Farouk, May You Live Forever and later, for Nasser, Gamal and the Nile Are Creators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: Nightingale of the Nile | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...working with an alltime-high G.N.P., which is now running at a $45 billion rate, was to spread the profits. Among other things, he went in for road building, so far has committed $665 million to projects ranging from highways around Lima to a 3,500-mile stretch that will presumably open up the Andes' sparsely settled eastern slopes to farming and light industry. So far this year Peru's per capita income is up 16% to an annual rate of $365, which may not sound like much but is dramatic in view of the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru: Reversal of Form | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...cover, platoons of photo interpreters labor around the clock behind the electrically locked steel door of a special laboratory at Tan Son Nhut comparing pictures of the same minute areas, looking for the subtle changes that spell V.C. They are experts at their work. "I've seen them stretch film right across the room and then count the trees from a prominent river bend in order to pinpoint an area," says Major William L. Musladin, the Recce Tech's operations officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Eyes in the Sky | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

...trouble dates back to 1958, when former Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, hoping to win a bigger voice for West Germany in NATO, picked the free world's hottest plane. In order to stretch the F-104's capabilities into those of a bomber, the Germans installed so much additional electronic gear that pilots called the plane "a flying physics laboratory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Problems with the Flying Lab | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

...Paris suburb, Duchamp-Villon modeled his first equestrian studies with horse and rider. Then as he continued working, he merged the two, smoothed down the surfaces to the metallic glisten of machinery. Only the vaguest form of a hoof in the cubistic sculpture resembles a steed thundering down the stretch. Fetlocks and hindquarters dissolved into the hard shape of cams, pistons and gears. Through the years, Duchamp-Villon's Horse has been known only in terms of the final small-scale model. Even as such, it has been hailed as a major breakthrough in 20th century sculpture. Henri Matisse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Mechanical Centaur | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

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