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Word: stretched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson, which led by as many as 29 points midway through the second half, was outscored, 18-4, at one point down the stretch, although most of the cagers' starters sat out during that period...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: Streaking Cagers Bludgeon Judges, 79-63; Nail Down Second Straight Home Victory | 12/9/1986 | See Source »

...conspirators in fixing the election of Jackie Presser as head of the powerful International Brotherhood of Teamsters in 1983. Whether or not Salerno is found guilty of these latest charges, he already faces more bad news in January, when he will be sentenced in the Mafia trial. The maximum stretch he could receive: 306 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: More Trouble for Fat Tony | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...building in which all this is gathered was for two decades an obsolete pachyderm of tawny limestone occupying as beautiful a site as Paris, or the world, can offer: a stretch of the Left Bank across from the Louvre, with a panoramic view of the Tuileries. Originally, the Cours des Comptes had stood here, and after the ravages of the Paris Commune of 1871, its melancholy, fire-gutted ruins remained untouched for nearly 30 years. Then, in 1898, the Orleans railroad company bought the site and raised on it a railroad station with a built-in hotel, serving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Out of a Grand Ruin, a Great Museum | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...George Imredy: a butterflier from Illinois who should do well in the stretch...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Shooting for the Elusive Number Nine | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

Picture this: Saturday, February 7, 2:54 p.m. Princeton 53. One more time, the last relay, for all the marbles. The final two swimmers head for the wall, the roar of the crowd, the stretch of the hand...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Shooting for the Elusive Number Nine | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

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