Word: stretched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airport officials briskly and calmly set routine emergency procedures into motion. A score of fire trucks, dozens of ambulances and police cars, all with their red lights flashing, took up their stations along Runway 13 (pointing 130° southeast), toward the end of its 11,200-ft. stretch. Orbiting above the field, Flight 102's Pilot Edward Sommers, 44, kept checking with the tower for wind direction and the state of preparations for his landing. (Meanwhile, stewardesses served dinner to the remarkably hungry passengers.) At Pilot Sommers' request, Idlewild operations sent out fire trucks to lay down...
...supervising the 181 million acres of national forests that add up to one of the U.S. taxpayers' greatest assets. The 148 national forests, ranging in size and style from Alaska's 16-million-acre Tongass to California's 367-acre Calaveras Big Trees National Forest (sequoias), stretch across 39 states, occupy a massive one-twelfth of the continental U.S. land space, one-fifth of the land area of the Western states. Last year they drew 68.5 million campers and tourists, but few tourists realized that the amiable, green-clad rangers probably also had responsibility for controlled lumbering...
...problem with lumping together such volumes, Coop buyer Robert Nindel point out, is that with little stretch of the imagination they could also be classified in other categories. However, he praised the idea for a special shelf...
Rose-Colored Mules. At 2 o'clock one morning, as Bill's black Dauphine-Gordini headed towards Fontainebleau, he jammed on the brakes on a deserted stretch of the road and pulled out his pistol. Dominique jumped out of the car as Bill started firing-five shots in all. Hit, Dominique clawed at the tar roadway in her frenzy to crawl away, was still writhing when Bill calmly dumped a can of oil over her and set her on fire. As he started back to Paris and the apartment of his "official mistress," who was to provide...
...outskirts to a garret on arty Via Margutta ( "too expensive and too phony") Work for Kicks. There are an estimated 500 U.S. painters, sculptors and writers in Italy today. Living on shoestring savings and slim scholarships (average annual grant: $2,500 to $3,000). most are trying to stretch their pennies into more time for their art. They have nothing but scorn for their beatnik contemporaries of San Francisco, and they cold-shouldered shaggy, beatnik Poet Gregory Corso. who stormed into Rome recently bawling...