Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prove ourselves against nationally-ranked teams," Marynick said. "It's not going to be an easy stretch...
John Goodall, a river watcher with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, stood on a bridge over a picturesque stretch of King's Creek last week tugging at his bright red fisherman's overalls and frowning as he looked down at his catch. With a single toss of his net, Goodall had pulled up 14 perky-looking menhaden, a finger-length bait fish native to Maryland's Eastern Shore. But on closer inspection, all except one of the fish turned out to have ugly red-brown lesions across their silvery skin, where bacteria were literally eating them alive. "It's just horrific...
...children and those of others. He helps trap the woman he has described. But for the trial to go forward he must declare her sane, a judgment that would have seemed as mushy at the beginning of the Freudian era as it does now. For a long stretch of chapters, the trial seizes the story, and Kreizler, who is not a lawyer, can't take it back. A good courtroom drama, always welcome but not uncommon, floods the author's rare and fascinating tunneling into the beginnings of psychiatry...
...rose or fell at least 100 points all five days that week, part of a numbing month-long stretch in which wild price swings have found space on the front page of many business sections. It was more of the same last week. The Dow plunged 133 points Wednesday and was down about that much again Thursday before roaring back 80 points late in the day, and then swinging another 100 plus points on Friday. In absolute terms, there's never been anything like this flurry of 100- and 200-point moves. Even in percentage terms--the thing that matters...
...festooned in polka dots. Stodghill said that neighbors weren't thrilled by other aspects of the project, including the thousands of old shoes displayed in the area. But support from neighborhood residents, local businesses and government groups far surpasses any dissatisfaction. The Heidelberg Project provides a stimulating, relatively safe stretch in Detroit's inner city where residents and visitors can play, create, learn, sit and think. Many of the artworks, constructed by Guyton with the help of children and adults, are collective responses to important current or historical events. While it is true that the polka-dot logo recalls jelly...