Word: stretched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WASTE BY STRETCH...
...budget makes only token cuts in force levels, proposes to halt no major projects except nuclear power for aircraft carriers. The rising cost of arms is met mainly by the timeworn device of "stretching out" procurement and development schedules on hardware. The stretch-out looks fine on paper; it keeps programs alive at a reduced spending rate, preserves the same high-sounding force goals for the future-but only pushes the future farther into the future. Actually, in the day of inexorable change the stretchout wastes more money than any other budget practice. It postpones operational dates on entire weapons...
...enough to challenge the prowess of every red-blooded driver from Bognor Regis to Balquhidder when the initial 72-mile stretch of Britain's first six-lane throughway opened last week after 590 days abuilding. M1, as the government proudly labeled the London-Birmingham Motorway, is intended-when its final 45 miles are completed-to almost halve the time it now takes to crawl along a major industrial artery (average speed: 23.4 m.p.h.). But it boasts one feature guaranteed to lure speed-starved drivers from all parts of Britain. It has no speed limit...
Christians will treasure many of these sayings for their restatements of familiar themes (It is impossible for a man to mount two horses and to stretch two bows, and it is impossible for a servant to serve two masters), as well as for their beauty and ring: Jesus said: I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I guard it until the world is afire...
...process of such deep thinking, Vag had found it helpful to stretch out on his couch. "I really can apply myself better this way," he reminded the victrola. So there he stayed, reading carefully for ten minutes...