Word: stretched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is big trouble in Peking City these days, but even the party faithful are laughing and applauding at the Tianqiao (Heavenly Bridge) Theater. Reason: these capitalist roaders are stepping out on a new stretch of that irresistibly American thoroughfare known as the Great White Way. Since March, ten Americans, led by Director George White of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Conn., have been working with 100 Chinese to stage the first American musicals ever seen in the country, The Music Man and The Fantasticks. For Music Man, which just opened, the Chinese took special pains...
...trouble looking whom in the eye now. The bay colt Alysheba, 8-1 in the Derby, is an honest horse but has a hard time keeping to a straight course. In the Blue Grass Stakes nine days earlier, Alysheba finished first but was demoted for swerving in the stretch. Deep thinkers who drop in on this sport once a year fretted for his confidence all week until Van Berg gently pointed out, "He doesn't know he was disqualified. He thinks he won the race...
...chances during that stretch," Kleinfelder said, "but crucial turnovers in transition killed...
...This was a beatable team," the ninth-year Harvard coach continued. "We were clearly in command of the game, except for that one stretch. I thought we gave them a good...
...when Chicago won a divisional pennant, the team appeared on national television wearing a big "SOX" across the front of polyester stretch uniforms with numbers on its pants. For once, the White Sox were taken seriously...