Word: stretch
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...home of the druggist and the house of the leather dealer, and the home of the state auditor and the little house where the divorced schoolteacher lived. You see where the Lincolns' babysitter trudged home after a long stretch with the rowdy boys, and you see the spot where stood the home of Jamison Jenkins, a conductor on the Underground Railroad. It takes no great imagination to picture the enthusiastic parades and rallies that flowed through this street during Lincoln's historic campaigns...
...great to have that key player in place, because you're also looking for differences. You're looking for different energy - I always think of it for some reason as people holding a quilt. Everybody's got hold of a different end, and they've really got to stretch it taut. You don't want two people who perform the same function...
Peru currently produces around 20,000 tons of solid waste daily, according to government statistics. Most of this waste is dumped indiscriminately, ending up in rivers or the Pacific Ocean. A cleanup campaign in late January removed 30 tons of garbage from a 3-mile stretch along the banks of the Rimac, the principal river in Lima. Peru has only eight properly designed and operational landfills nationwide...
...Harvard now faces a six-game stretch against ECAC opponents, beginning with this weekend’s home contests against Colgate and Cornell...
...intensity of the game only increased from there, as Harvard played through a long stretch of penalty kill in the first half of the period. But it was at even strength that Yale found a way to tie the game...