Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...insisted on a plebiscite which abrogated the constitutional provision against re-election of a President for twelve years, gave him eight years more in office. Last week he decided again that his country needed a man like him: two years before his term expired he had a Constitutional Congress stretch his term again-this time until March...
Walking themselves footsore around the great River Rouge plant, newsmen spotted Army Blitz-buggies everywhere. Ford has delivered 1,500 of them, has 2,500 still to come. They saw a great aircraft apprentice school geared to turn out aircraft mechanics 3,000 at a time. And, crossing a stretch of land that last year was a swamp, they saw Henry Ford's favorite contribution to national defense: the Navy Service School. There, quartered in eight gleaming white barracks (built at Ford's expense), live 1,400 sailormen, learning in factory shops and classrooms how to be mechanics...
...driver for Dodge, gave one of the little command cars and a truck the works. Frenchy's working outfit was a white shirt, bow tie, suspenders, gray trousers, and a long cigar. The works consisted of darting up and down a 45% grade, growling through a fifty-yard stretch of gumbo mud that lay fender deep in a six-foot gully, then bouncing up the sides of the gully and tearing through a quarter-mile of heavy underbrush. Not even Frenchy showed signs of wear & tear...
...each of the three countries have long held that such a solution is unthinkable; deny with horror that conversations about such bases have ever been held. Last week the New York Herald Tribune's hustling William W. White cabled from London the same old story: the U.S. may stretch the rubberized Hemisphere once again, may extend the naval patrol to southern Ireland, may "take over" south Irish bases as the Marines took over Iceland...
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde early in 1886. At the time he was living in Bournemouth, England, ill with tuberculosis, suffering recurrent hemorrhages of the lungs. Friends could visit him for no more than a quarter-hour at a stretch. One night his wife woke him from a particularly violent nightmare. "I was dreaming a fine bogey tale," he told her, and at once began sketching out the story of Jekyll and his evil companion-up to the transformation scene, where he had been awakened...