Word: stretched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the buzzer sounded, the home crowd went wild. Their team had beaten the NBA's best. I had never really liked the Celtics, I had never really followed the team. But this time they were underdogs down the stretch, and I wanted them to win. I knew that if it came down to Bird in the final minutes, the Celtics would...
Another low-light of that Columbia game was the 6:09 stretch of the second half during which the Crimson failed to score a single point. That wasn't the longest dry spell of the year for Harvard, however...
Johnston's "Stretch-A-Buck" campaign, which she illustrates with rubber dollar bills, stresses social services, the nuclear freeze, and deficit reduction through defense budget cuts...
...swept into Washington like a head of state, wearing a tailored Nehru suit and traveling around town in a silver stretch limo dubbed "Jonas' whale" by Washington wags. Seeking U.S. support for his 28,000-strong guerrilla army, he was formally received by Secretary of State George Shultz, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and, finally, President Reagan. With the help of a high-powered public relations firm, he appeared on Public Television's MacNeil/ Lehrer NewsHour and ABC's Nightline and Good Morning America to plead his cause against Angola's Marxist regime and their Cuban and Soviet sponsors...
...patient with his camera, stores a digitized record of it in his computer and then uses his stylus to smooth over wrinkles and remove unsightly bumps. Invoking a software program developed with the help of Artist Nancy Burson for electronically "aging" photographs of missing children, he may even stretch or shrink portions of the face. Ali, for one, was enthralled and reassured by the computer wizardry, and decided on the spot to be resculpted. "I was so excited," she says. "I had seen myself after surgery, and I wasn't scared anymore...