Word: stretched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been through Ulster's cycles of violence from the beginning. A close friend, who had joined the R.U.C. on the same day that French did, was killed in 1970, the first police victim of the I.R.A. Today French is responsible for some of the roughest terrain in Ulster, a stretch of 41 miles along the border with the Irish Republic that is part of "bandit country." The I.R.A. constantly uses the 291 crossings along the 280-mile border to escape manhunts, carry out ambushes and smuggle weapons and explosives...
...they are always happy to listen to constructive criticism, they add that they have no immediate plans to change the rooming system. "It's tough for an 18-year-old to know what is best. We take the harder route, not just listening to requests, but trying to stretch the person," Worth says...
Between sets, in the upstairs hallway that serves as a dressing room, everyone is casual. Why do they do it? The answers, in decreasing order of peer acceptability, are: for the money, for the laughs, as a creative outlet, to gain stage presence and stretch their personalities, or (and here, anyone within earshot rolls his eyes) to break into the entertainment big time...
...aggressive backcourt play of freshman Ralph James and Tri-Captain Mike Gielen down the stretch pushed the Crimson to a 91-76 victory in front of 200 spectators...
...mesmerizing. But New York is like the wedding cake in a bakery window: an exquisite excess of spun sugar covering a cardboard core. Beneath Manhattan's sheen is the New York of endemic corruption, failing schools, and racial tensions, a polarized city of 7.3 million where the megarich in stretch limousines look away from the 1.8 million living in poverty, more than 50,000 of them homeless. The city that prides itself on being the cutting edge of the future watches as corporations, promising artists and middle-class families flee its staggering costs and the country's highest taxes, while...