Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group of notable American friends* of Poland and international justice sent President Harry S. Truman an appeal on Poland to be delivered to him before the Big Three conference. They charged that the so-called "broadening" of the Warsaw Government can "by no stretch of the imagination . . . be called an honest fulfillment even of the Yalta agreement . . . described by President Roosevelt as in some respects a disappointing compromise on the Polish question." They urged (among other things) that the Big Three conference agree to: 1) the release of the twelve members of the Polish underground convicted in Warsaw of sabotage...
Over the hump with this burst, the part-time umbrella salesman could not be stopped. He calmly outshot ex-Yankee Ballplayer Sam Byrd in the final to pocket the P.G.A.'s first prize, $5,000 in war bonds, and stretch his winning string to a dizzy nine straight tourneys. His victory-starved rivals' future looked darker than ever. Cracked Mike Turnesa: "I was 7 under par. . . . I don't see how anyone can beat...
...Idaho, raced at 47 miles a minute across Montana, Canada, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, disappearing after just two hours and 27 minutes at Tashkent, in Turkestan (see diagram). The total eclipse followed a very narrow path (maximum width: 58 miles, in Greenland), but it covered a long stretch of land area. One of the most elaborately equipped expeditions (a Harvard-led group at Bredenbury, Sask.) missed it completely because of clouds, but scores of other astronomers' parties (the Russians alone had 22) got good observations...
...loinclothed subjects, King Ninji, chocolaty ruler of a stretch of New Guinea jungle, last week presented another royal scion-the Duke of Gloucester, brother of Britain's King George VI and Governor-General of Australia. The King wore a headdress of cassowary plumes fixed to tambu shells, from which dangled bits of wood and metal from a wrecked airplane...
...large portrait of Winston Churchill, which has long decorated the British Broadcasting Corp.'s Manhattan office, was discreetly out of sight last week. Abroad no less than at home, as Britain's general election campaign roared down the home stretch, the BBC maintained its traditional policy of strict political neutrality...