Word: stretched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story later this season may not be just Wiley, though, Jenny Stricker, who is slowly working herself back into shape after a year's layoff, was one of Harvard's all-time best runners two years ago, and could be a pivotal force when the Crimson makes its stretch run for the league crown...
...party has for decades been fundamentally split. The division has been partly ideological, but to an even greater extent cultural, regional and social. One branch has been dominated by a right-wing populist strand, predominantly Western, rural and Main Street, whose antecedents stretch back to the isolationists and McCarthyites. This wing has often vehemently opposed the G.O.P.'s so-called Eastern Establishment, whose members are associated with Wall Street and country clubs; their views tend to be more sympathetic to Big Business, internationalism and political pragmatism. The bitterness peaked at the 1964 G.O.P. convention, when the conservative followers...
...rafter-reaching speeches were about to begin. Inside the cavernous Dallas Convention Center, workmen folded down the last bright red cushion of the hall's 17,000 seats, providing a telegenic color complement to the acres of blue carpeting. VIPS began slipping into town, ferried between meetings in stretch limousines, some with real Texas longhorns protruding from their hoods. The blast-furnace August climate was performing on cue, with temperatures reaching the 100° mark. But the Big D's air-conditioned interiors were frigid enough to give a reasonable life expectancy to the ice-sculpted elephants that will serve...
...King's law now applies will be decided by the Maine courts in a case involving public access to a prime stretch of coastline called Moody Beach. Assistant Attorney General Paul Stern, for one, believes that the courts "will decide that the public has the right to use the state beaches rather than preserving them for essentially the privileged classes. Why shouldn't a mill worker from Lisbon Falls be able to use the beaches?" he asks. The legal tide seems to be going...
...lean way back in the chair. Rest your head and stretch out. Relax. Now get to work...