Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soldiers at Santa Cruz, Monterey and Carmel evacuated 1,000 householders along a 40-mile stretch of coast, sent them inland for safety...
...noon next day the President sat back in the deep cushions of the big closed car, adjusted his big dark Navy cape. The gravel spattered from the driveway, the car moved off slowly around the south lawn, and up the long clear stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue toward the looming dome of the Capitol. On each running board perched a Secret Service man. His car was flanked on both sides by open Secret Service cars, three men on each running board, four men inside. The men in the tonneaus held sawed-off riot guns. Those outside carried .38-caliber service revolvers...
...horizon a low-lying cloud appears, and grows. It is a column of dust, signaling a column of vehicles. They approach. There are tanks, command cars, supply vehicles. They clank to a stop and lie scattered. Men crawl out, stretch, make repairs, talk, crawl back...
...rare occasions when Tommy Hart talks about his career, he is apt to say that he has been lucky. Lucky or no, he moved up fast. He got his first command when he was in his late 205 (the destroyer Lawrence), became, after a stretch of sea duty, Inspector of Ordnance at the Newport, R.I. Naval Torpedo Station, executive officer of the U.S.S. Minnesota, commander of submarines in both the Atlantic and the Pacific. In 1931 he became Superintendent of the Naval Academy, won a rear admiral's rank, the nickname "Turtleneck" and the gratitude of football fans...
...Corp. Like all oldtimers in Consolidated's tightly knit hierarchy, he has long since ceased to be surprised at any feat a Cat performs. But he has not lost his capacity for pride. It has plenty to feed on in the Cat's nest in a sunlit stretch between crowded Pacific Highway and San Diego (Calif...