Word: stretched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four-minute stretch, the hoopsters outscored a faltering Bruin squad, 10-1, and took a 64-50 lead. Brown was never able to narrow the gap to less than five points, as Harvard easily manipulated the Bruins' full-court press to its advantage...
...served prison terms for their Watergate crimes, uncooperative G. Gordon Liddy did by far the longest stretch (52 months). Only four others served as long as a year: E. Howard Hunt, former Attorney General John Mitchell and Presidential Aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. Prison terms for Perjurer Dwight Chapin (eight months), Burglary Plotters Jeb Magruder (seven months) and Egil Krogh (four months), Cover-Up Conspirator Charles Colson (seven months), Illegal Fund-Raiser Herbert Kalmbach (six months), John Dean (less than five months) and Dirty Trickster Donald Segretti (four months) seemed light to some, just to others...
Only another two hours or so until dinner, and after that, we're into the home stretch. All the same, it is a bit tougher than before...
After eight hours of recorded tunes, live bands are scheduled to bring us through the home stretch. "Love Monsters," fresh from their victory in the Undergraduate Council's Battle of the Bands, open the last four hours and help rejuvenate our tired feet...
...celebrate the 50th anniversary of Newsweek, Washington Post Co. Chairman Katharine Graham hired not one hall but three of New York City's biggest. While most of the magazine's staffers celebrated at the Sheraton Centre hotel a few blocks away, a stream of stretch limos deposited celebrities at Lincoln Center for a biflorate black-tie dinner party at the New York State Theater and Avery Fisher Hall. Hostess Graham reportedly busied herself with the tiniest of details, right down to the seating arrangements. For First Lady Nancy Reagan's dinner companions, she chose Henry Kissinger...