Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...79th Congress was in the home stretch, and it could hardly wait for adjournment. But to the surprise of many, it still could lay a foundation for a more efficient legislative plant. It passed the congressional reorganization bill, sent it to the President...
...sleek greyhounds, Ballymack Border and Rossbane Dasher, were running neck & neck down the stretch. Suddenly Ballymack Border did what tiring dogs often do: he turned on his challenger, knocked him out of the race. The favorite, Rossmir Biddy, breezed past them both...
...assumption that price and rent control will be continued until the danger of inflation is past. He is ". . . . profoundly convinced that the American Congress, after supporting the stabilization program throughout the war, is not likely to throw its benefits away just as we are entering the home stretch back to peacetime operations." It seems that Congress is letting Chester Bowles down along with the rest of us. "Tomorrow Without Fear" presents a bold, beautiful, but amazingly naive plan for American prosperity. It is worth reading if only to see what we are missing...
Emerson, Anne Sullivan and the good and great teachers in between were all masters of the mental stretch. Near the top was James Mill, whose son and pupil, John Stuart Mill, tells how he began learning Greek at three and Latin at eight. Observes J.S.: "A pupil from whom nothing is ever demanded which he cannot do, never does...
Blind, deaf Helen Keller had to stretch just as hard, merely to start living. At seven, more than five years after illness destroyed her vision and hearing, she felt a doll being thrust into her hands by a new friend. Writes Helen: "When I had played with [the doll] a little while, Miss Sullivan slowly spelled into my hand the word 'd-o-l-l.' I was at once interested in this finger play. . . . I did not know [for several weeks] that I was spelling a word or even that words existed...