Word: stretched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pondering all these hints, New York Times Columnist William Safire, a Reagan supporter and former Nixon speechwriter, suggested last week that Mondale might yet put on a stretch drive reminiscent of Silky Sullivan, a horse that ran a quarter-century ago and was famous for close finishes in races that appeared hopelessly lost. Safire even provided a script of sorts. Key elements...
...show up for a while in the national polls," says one. "But you need ice water in your veins for the next couple of weeks." Robert Strauss, the Democrats' Mr. Fixit, who heads a council of party elders advising Mondale, insists, "It's the seventh-inning stretch, not the top of the ninth...
...that stretch, Quaker quarterback John McGeehan tossed two touchdown passes. Rich Comizio scampered 37 yards for a score and Tom Murphy added field goals of 31 and 36 yards...
Moreover, if Kaup and Sepkoski are right, the implications stretch far into the heart of evolutionary science. Most scientists believe that races and species die out primarily as a result of genetic deficiencies, but the so-called "Death Star" theory may imply that extinctions are simply cases of bad luck...
...when we get that many boomers there always are those who go bust. George Bush worked it around to blame Mondale for the Soviet walkout from the arms talks, suggesting that they were hoping Mondale would be elected and be a pushover at the negotiating table. That is a stretch of the imagination that should be in the Guinness Book of World Records...