Word: stretched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cashiers havealso learned to watch for more elaborate devices for sneaking merchandise past the cash register: improbably distended bras (cheese and caviar), hollowed-out books (chops), a bagful of well-used baby diapers (canned goods), the false-bottom market bag, fake laundry packages (packaged meat), bulky, many-pocketed coats, stretch socks and slacks (candy and cigarettes). In a Chicago suburb, aware of a National Food Store security guard on her trail, one Spartan shopper waddled two blocks down the street before she let loose the frozen turkey under her skirt...
...determined to stick by the traditional three-mile limit, first suggested by a Dutch scholar back in 1703 when that distance was about the maximum range of a cannon. Though cannon range is no longer a criterion, the U.S. still has powerful reasons for not wanting to see nations stretch their territorial claims farther and thus shrink by hundreds of thousands of miles the great body of water known as the High Seas. For one thing, argued U.S. Delegate Arthur Dean (Korean armistice negotiator and onetime law partner of John Foster Dulles), enemy submarines can find easier sanctuary in extended...
Given better material to work with, the Leverett House actors might have created a very pleasant evening; done with high virtuosity, the plays might have been high entertainment. As it is, except for a long stretch of good comic writing at the beginning of The Marriage, Gogol provides only occasional wisps of straw for these actors to make bricks with...
...varsity settled down to a strong 32 stroke cadence for the rest of the race as Syracuse and M.I.T. battled for the second position. In the last stretch the Crimson sprinted at 38 to hold off Syracuse's closing...
...probably the most exciting race of the afternoon, Art Cahn outduelled Tiger Gene Shahan, pulling away in the stretch to win the 880 in 1:57.1. Dave Brahms took third for the varsity...