Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asked: "How many of you would recommend tomorrow a tax in crease for the purpose of restraining our economy? Those of you that would, I wish you would raise your right hand." Not a hand went up. In that case, said Johnson, he would expect them to defer, stretch out or abandon at least $6 billion of a total of $60 billion in planned capital expenditures. Several agreed to try. Campbell Soup President Willam B. Murphy ordered aides to cut back on all capital expenditures except those that are "absolutely required," and not to be outsouped, H. J. Heinz...
...poem "Ozymandias" describes a similar despot upon whose statue was engraved: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:/Look on my works, ye Mighty and despair!" And, as with the Ghanaian, "Nothing beside remains. Round the decay/Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare/The lone and level sands stretch far away...
...spent 32 years as Sister Mary Mercy, a Holy Names nun, often driven to despair as her politically influential father constantly meddled in her cloistered life-winning her trips to Europe, paying for her to come to Washington's Catholic University for a Ph.D. and helping her stretch her poverty vows by sending his limousine around to pick her up at the Library of Congress-until his death in 1954, after which she left the order to care for her mother and ailing sister, later became a successful stockbroker, a three-book author and a college humanities teacher...
...Reed '10, both Roosevelts, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. '38, and practically every other graduate whose name is familiar. But, distinguished names aside, the writing is pathetic. John Reed may be appreciated for Ten Days that Shook the World, but is admiration for him and interest in his work supposed to stretch to include the poems about seagulls written when he was 18 years...
Lowell House tutors and faculty members incidentally, are among the most approachable in the University, and many good conversations stretch from 5:30 to 7:00-plus. The two House Secretaries are great...