Word: stretched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story on the Normandy battlefield, Painton crisscrossed the 60-mile stretch of landing beaches. At Pointe du Hoc, he explored the 100-ft. cliffs that U.S. Rangers had scaled in the face of enemy fire. "The remains of German bunkers are the only evidence that a war had been fought there," he reports. "Those bunkers were blasted into chunks of concrete that now resemble tilting Celtic dolmens...
...enough to elect an alderman." Hart spent $70,000. Oregon voters, urban hipsters and rural people alike, tend toward the kind of self-reliant, pine-scented progressivism that the Coloradan espouses; an endorsement from the influential Portland Oregonian also helped. Hart's white-water raft trip down a stretch of Oregon's Deschutes River was a picture-perfect dramatization of his appeal. "I love danger," he said after shooting the rapids. "It was wonderful-too short, but so is life." Three days later he was on horseback, all smiles, galloping across Colorado rangeland and into a photo opportunity...
...instance, is mistaken for a high school shop teacher by a girl he tries to pick up in a bar. Ernest Stickley Jr. is a dour Oklahoma hick who, in Swag (1976), conducts a doomed 100-day armed-robbery career. Resurfacing in Stick, seven years and a prison stretch later, he has scarcely improved; he worships Actor Warren Oates and thinks disco is dynamite. But, like all of Leonard's main men, deep down he is as incorrodable as a zinc bar and as heady as the stuff...
Staying in private homes may also serve to stretch skimpy campaign funds, but the practice adds to the already legendary chaos of the Jackson drive. Jackson's schedules are haphazard at best, and difficulty in finding the homes of the poor is making him even later than usual. In Baltimore, campaign workers had to hire a cab to lead a motorcade of aides and reporters to pick up Jackson at Jarrard's home Tuesday morning, and borrow $12 from a reporter to pay the fare. Even then, Aide Frank Watkins had to stop the caravan of vans...
...years ago as British troops advanced across the barren hills to retake the Falkland Islands from Argentina. But these are not the sounds of war. Since last fall almost 700 men have been working up to 14 hours a day blasting through rock at Mount Pleasant, a bleak stretch of high ground 25 miles southwest of Port Stanley, the capital. They are building a new British military base with an 8,500-ft. runway that will be able to accommodate large military aircraft...