Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Imagine a pair of race horses entering the final stretch. The outcome becomes more and more ambiguous with each stride and to the chagrin of ticket holders in the grandstands, the winner remains a mystery until the final moment...
...have had several clients who were tempted to stretch the truth in order to get a better deal. In at least one case, a client tried to invent an elaborate story against a public official in exchange for his freedom. Fortunately, when pressed by his lawyers, he admitted that the story was false and that he made it up because it was the only way he would save himself from imprisonment...
...When you stretch yourself that far [in addressing so many issues], it's hard to see how he'll keep all the surplus from social security but still do his reforms," Parr said...
...years ago, it was home to hookers, dirty bookstores and grungy B-movie palaces. Now a little stretch of 42nd Street west of Broadway in New York City is the most happening piece of show-biz real estate in the world. On one side of the street is the refurbished New Amsterdam Theater, where Disney's The Lion King, a stage version of Simba's tale that opened to raves in November, is the hottest-selling show in Broadway history. Just across the street, at another rebuilt theater dubbed the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, the eagerly awaited Ragtime...
...huge shot," Dean says. "Down the stretch, he always comes up big. He responds to pressures really well--it doesn't bother...