Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...broke down defensively down the stretch," Harvard Coach Katey Stone said. "We just missed are assignments...
Added to the potential game-winner, the pair missed four shots down the stretch that would have tied the game or given Harvard the lead...
Soon after, the credits roll and the crew members stretch their arms. Capuano comes into the control room, thanks everybody, and briskly leaves, already late for his next appointment...
...memory of any stretch of years eventually resolves to a list of names, and one of the useful ways of recalling the past two millenniums is by listing the people who acquired great power. Muhammad, Catherine the Great, Marx, Gandhi, Hitler, Roosevelt, Stalin and Mao come quickly to mind. There's no question that each of those figures changed the lives of millions and evoked responses from worship through hatred...
...whole stretch of days in Jerusalem had gone badly wrong--the ass that went lame while bearing him toward the "triumphal entry," the vicious eyes and mouths around him through the Temple debates he sought so hungrily, and then his wild-eyed one-man assault on the money changers and lamb-and-dove merchants. Physically speaking, he'd done enough damage to last five minutes; but in terms of challenging the Temple mob, he'd laid the last straw on a big camel's back...