Word: stretched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was worse to come. A series of heavy rainstorms drenched the dangerous track and dimmed visibility. Five crackups, one a three-way collision, followed in rapid succession. With good equipment and good driving, no one was seriously hurt. Then, roaring through pitch black night into the tricky stretch that leads to the corner called Tertre Rouge, French Driver Jean Mary (real name: Jean Brousselet) drove head on into a steep embankment. His Jaguar bounced back into the path of an onrushing Ferrari. Somehow the Ferrari driver, Los Angeles' Bruce Kessler, dived from his seat just before the explosive...
...long stretch of coast north of Bering Strait has no serviceable natural harbor, and the country behind it is believed to be rich in minerals, including vast deposits of high-grade coking coal. There may be important fisheries too, but few fishermen like to work off the dangerous, shelterless coast. So the region, which is virtually uninhabited, may be a good place for the world's first attempt (if the Russians do not do it first) at large-scale nuclear blasting...
...biggest international art show in the world is held every other year on a quarter-mile stretch that was once Venice's marine arsenal. This year the 29th Biennale exhibited 446 artists from 37 countries, needed 115 halls to hold 3,533 works. For the first time since Whistler won with his Little White Girl in 1895, the jury crowned an American painter. Winner of the international painting award ($2,400): Wisconsin-born Seattle Painter Mark Tobey, 67 (TiME, July 22), whose sensitive oils of squirming lines of light had already attracted critical applause. Top international prize for sculpture...
...lobbies of the Philadelphia Bulletin and Inquirer in downtown Philadelphia. In Camden, just across the Delaware River, traffic jammed bumper to bumper around the Courier-Post's building to buy copies from vendors, who have included, on occasion. President-Publisher Mrs. Frances G. Stretch, her three children and granddaughter...
...more and more like a man in a bowler hat trying to catch a tram. Tabori came on to make a brief challenge, but Elliott stayed in command. He had no noticeable finishing kick; he merely ran fast all the way. Coach Cerutty stood at the head of the stretch wildly waving a towel, the signal that there was a chance to break the world's record (3:58). As usual, Herb Elliott's competition was only the clock, and he fell a few ticks short. Time for the mile: 3:58.1. Tabori was second, a shade...