Word: stretched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During a three-inning stretch, Rowning pitched all strikes en route to her second two-hit shutout of the season. She never faced more than four batters in an inning, and allowed only four batters to reach base--none of whom managed to round the bases to third...
...Crimson (7-2 overall, 3-2 Ivy League) wear down the Tigers on a field that had more mud than grass. Princeton, which entered the game at 1-8 overall, had hopes of pulling off a big Easter weekend upset, but simply lacked the firepower down the stretch...
Perhaps the show's most satisfying moments came not from youth but from experience. Playing Cattalabutte, the bumbling Master of Ceremonies, Associate Director John Taras, swathed in a sublime silk costume, looked like a Faberge egg and acted with delicacy and imaginative stretch. His performance lofted the production into the delicious follies of a court...
...boot camp and Outward Bound. In one platoon at the M.C.R.D., half the recruits admitted they were afraid of heights. Now they are about to endure what the Marines call the "slide for life," clambering up a 35-ft.-high wooden tower and then descending headfirst down wires that stretch across a muddy ditch. A recruit clings like a frightened tree sloth to the wire. Then, slowly, his grip loosens and he plunges into the muddy water. "You just let go. You didn't even try," snaps the angry instructor. "Back to the squad bay, Private...
...fall like the flimsiest trailer camp in Arizona. When times are good, the wilderness is shown being minced into salable acreage. Above it all, the sky rings its changes, slate blue in one picture, cornflower in the next, baby's-bottom pink in another. It is the last unspoiled stretch of America, the only patch of nature where the developers cannot get a foothold...