Word: stretch
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...smuggler was surprised to see us. It's his business to monitor traffic along his stretch of the border, and he had just watched from his hiding place as a white-and-green patrol truck rolled slowly past on the U.S. side. The day shift was ending for "la migra," the border patrol, so it was time for him to move...
...BEIJING) - At least 57 people have died and eight are missing in flooding across a broad stretch of southern China, state media reported Monday...
...Start Young Get kids moving with games of tag or hide-and-seek. And for tinier tots? Easy, says Dr. Edward Laskowski, co-director of Sports Medicine at Mayo Clinic. Ask them to run like a gorilla, walk like a spider, hop like a bunny or stretch like a cat. Just try to get them to stop...
...optimistic and keep pushing and pushing and pushing. So they pointed to a hopeful sign: 10 Senators who had never before supported cap-and-trade legislation voted for Reid's attempt to move the bill forward. That was good news by any measure. But it would be a stretch to call it a sign of inevitability. This is a war, and in war, the outcome is never preordained...
...health services soars with repeated deployments and lengthy combat tours. If troops do not get sufficient time away from combat - both while in theater and during the "dwell time" at home before they go back to war - it's possible that antidepressants and sleeping aids will be used to stretch an already taut force even tighter. "This is what happens when you try to fight a long war with an army that wasn't designed for a long war," says Lawrence Korb, Pentagon personnel chief during the Reagan Administration...