Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexico and in the Franco-Prussian War, Henri Rousseau retired at 41 from his job inspecting baggage and decided to devote the rest of his life to becoming a painter. That was in 1885. He had never been near an art school, and his diminutive pension would not stretch far enough to pay for instruction. So he set out, with enormous patience, to teach himself...
...outcome of this new attack by General Rommel over a stretch of ground that for the most part was infertile, inhospitable, useless, might well give the key to the fortunes of the African war in "the next year, perhaps for longer. For the fight in the desert was no cavalry skirmish. It was part of a great campaign for control of the Mediterranean, the great prize athwart the traffic of the United Nations to the Near East, to Russia and even on to Singapore...
Quizzical and obscure as one of his own birds, tall (6 ft. 4 in.), rangy Morris Graves lives alone with Edith, his pet dachshund. Uninterrupted by visitors (no roads reach his cabin), he often paints for ten hours at a stretch, takes an occasional job at the Seattle Art Museum. Enigmatic even to his closest associates, he loves snakes and gardening, thinks the Museum's show of his work is "all a mistake...
...British made a decision which was dictated by necessity; to yield almost all Malaya, saving the Australians for a compact shield of men just north of Singapore. This would stretch Japanese communications through hundreds of miles of Commando-infested jungle, shorten British communications and coastline to the defensible limits of the troops in hand...
Axel Wenner-Gren's most ambiguous public gesture was in February 1940, when at the cabled request of Hermann Göring he rushed to Berlin, attempted to mediate a Russo-Finnish peace. But his associates indignantly declare: ". . . by no stretch of the imagination [is he] an Axis sympathizer." Last March he said: "... I shall always prefer peace to war so long as there is reasonable basis for hoping for peace, but never at a sacrifice of the principles of freedom and progressive democracy...