Word: stretch
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...nice middle-class clan with a passing resemblance to the Andersons, the show had the ring of familiarity, if not of gospel truth. Though I didn?t always follow the precepts peddled by Jim and Margaret, I was raised on them. It wouldn?t be a stretch to say that FKB was the documentary of my 1950s - the way the '70s PBS series An American Family might have mirrored real life for younger kids, but with the accent on the positive, not the corrosive...
...country changing as rapidly as China is, people often take comfort from things that remain the same. That may explain the alarm felt by residents of the western city of Lanzhou on Sunday afternoon, when they noticed that a stretch of the 3,400-mile Yellow River was not yellow - not even tan - but a color closer to magenta. By the next day China's official news agency, Xinhua, had published photographs of the Biblically hued slick and reported that an unknown substance spilling out of a local sewer had caused the river to "turn red and smelly...
...drought has tumbled back into the minds of city dwellers. All sorts of trip wires have been activated in a matter of days. Parched, cracked earth and blue sky stretch across the front pages of the nation's newspapers. Canberra is issuing a burst of agricultural terms-relief package, subsidies, exceptional circumstances and "our farmers." "It is part of the psyche of this country, it is part of the essence of Australia, to have a rural community," Howard said last week after announcing an extension of drought support to farmers. "We would lose something of our identification as Australians...
What has happened to the Republican Party? This question is already on the minds of many Republicans as we head into the final stretch of this election cycle and is sure to explode into a frenzy of scapegoating and finger-pointing after our party receives its expected trouncing in November. So far, however, few conservative commentators have offered an explanation that I find convincing, largely because they are still in a “state of denial,” so to speak, about the depth of the party’s (and the nation’s) problems...
...can’t tell a team that they can win, they have to believe it. I’m not sure that’s inside of us right now.” Harvard has only three games remaining in its season, all against conference opponents, a stretch drive that begins Saturday night at Princeton. “Hopefully we can finish the season strong and win our next three games,” Merritt said. “We need to put this behind us.” —Staff writer Emily W. Cunningham...