Word: stretched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Inside, the Queen reminded the 400 Americans that Britannia was essentially retracing a stretch of Sir Francis Drake's 1579 route up the Pacific Coast. He "claimed this territory as 'Nova Albion' for the first Queen Elizabeth," she said, "and 'for the Queen's successors forever.' " Smile. Pause. "I am happy, though, to give you an immediate assurance that I have not come here today to press that claim." (She failed to deliver the kicker that the Nova Albion/California natives at the time, utterly wowed by their godlike English visitor, lavished Drake with gifts...
...caught Air Force Two to Santa Barbara. Warned that the Queen's plane was late, the presidential motorcade stopped in its tracks for 19 minutes under a highway overpass. The President's advisers reckoned this was preferable to hanging about an airplane hangar. Reagan got out to stretch...
...Army is considering adding sophisticated new missiles. Congress is upset because the price of the "affordable" helicopter has now more than doubled to $4.6 million apiece. But instead of killing the program, it decided instead to cut the funding this year by 30%, and the Army decided to stretch out the production time. That will reduce the manufacturer's efficiency and make the program more vulnerable to inflation. Hence the unit cost will continue rising...
...worst violence apparently took place near the town of Nellie, in a rice-growing area 34 miles northeast of Gauhati. There, Lalung tribesmen wielding machetes, bamboo spears and poisoned arrows massacred more than 1,000 Muslim Bengalis. The warriors swarmed through 17 villages along a stretch of the Brahmaputra River. They herded all those who were unable to flee, mostly women and children, toward a larger ambush party waiting by the river, where the Bengalis were brutally slaughtered. In one village, the bodies of children were arranged in two rows in the sunbaked rice fields while survivors dug mass graves...
...Toomey.) A mere wisp of a lass, Tabb. stands 5ft. 6 in. and weighs only 103 Ibs. But how the lady can run! Last year, at distances from a mile to 10,000 meters, she broke seven world and ten American records-nine of them in one 41-day stretch. Earlier this month she took herself out of competition for the remainder of the indoor track season to nurse a stress fracture of her left ankle, but she still looks lithe and fit. "It's nice," says she, "to have your legs appreciated for more than just looking good...