Word: stretch
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...constant level of training that we go after, and we felt very fit and prepared today. We’re really working on blending, getting long, relaxed strokes to get us this strength and power out there,” she said. “We want to stretch out the stroke and get all eight of us rowing unified and powerful.”Radcliffe’s second boat also posted good results, finishing 25th overall. Its time of 17:25.962 placed them just .3 seconds behind defending national champion Brown’s second crew...
...Stories have the power to transform and to stretch the muscles of imagination—the same muscles of tolerance and compassion,” she said...
...Bagus Putu Wija, communed with the resident spirits about our vague plans to build a holiday home there. Eventually, the Balinese wise man gave us the news that would literally determine the shape of our future villa. In the parallel spirit world of this devoutly Hindu island, our peaceful stretch of riverbank was actually a bustling spirit town, far bigger than the nearby human village...
...think people got the message when Nas said [in the title of his 2006 album] Hip Hop Is Dead. There was just a lack of creativity, a lack of fresh energy in the music. When people don't stretch and expand and try different things, music gets boring. That's what hip-hop was suffering from--a bad case of monotony...
...July after UNESCO awarded world-heritage status to the 900-year-old temple. It was built by ancient Khmers, the dominant ethnic group in Cambodia, who also constructed the famous Angkor Wat complex. Although the U.N. agency accepted Cambodia's sole claim of the site, Thailand believes that a stretch of land that is used to access the temple is rightfully its own. In 1962 the International Court of Justice ruled that the temple was in Cambodian territory, but it sidestepped the issue of the access route. For weeks in July and August, hundreds of soldiers faced off along...