Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fencing, the idea is to move your sword as little as possible. That's the idea Perey in trying to get across. Sweeping your weapon grandly through the air, he says, in like stepping to stretch when you're boxing Joe Louis...
Rain turned Tanforan's racing strip into thick, black gumbo. But it takes more than gumbo to stop Citation, a wonder horse in all weathers. Last week, in his first West Coast race, Citation sloshed effortlessly down the stretch to win his tune-up for next week's $50,000 Tanforan Handicap. His time was 1:12, one second off the six furlong track record. Explained Jockey Eddie Arcaro: "I didn't want to hurry...
...fair teams, as may be gathered from the three-year record of the squads Nelson played on. Minnesota was the only team which gave real trouble, winning the Little Brown Jug game three straight times. Indiana (in 1941) was the only other team to beat Michigan over the same stretch...
...Pendergast machine of Kansas City, which gave Harry Truman his start in politics, all but fell apart last week, just as its most famous offspring reached his greatest glory. When fat old Tom Pendergast died in 1945, after a short stretch in Leavenworth for income-tax evasion, his nephew and image, Jim Pendergast, took over the creaky remnants of the machine. But Jim just didn't have the touch...
...Wood Shed. Fish had been sold at the market, originally a one-block stretch at the foot of Fulton Street just north of Wall Street, since 1821. But it was not till 1848 that the city built a wooden shed to house the fishmongers...