Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year the Count's behavior has improved. So far he has had no romantic notions-as he did in last fall's Belmont Futurity when he took a shine to a filly named Askmenow and refused to pass her in the stretch. But he still refuses to be bullied. He makes his own decisions during a race, diving into narrow openings that would stump a less self-possessed, less determined horse. Each race he takes in stride, even eats an enormous meal immediately afterward - a rarity for a highstrung thoroughbred...
...area commanded by General Douglas Mac-Arthur. In conjunction with subordinate commanders and Australian politicians, he waged a public campaign, through the press, to compel a major and immediate change in U.S. strategy. ^ General MacArthur said from Australia: "The range of our air force over surrounding waters marks the stretch of no man's sea which is the measure of our safety. If we lose the air, naval forces cannot save us. ... The Allied naval forces can be counted upon to play their own magnificent part, but the battle of the Western Pacific will be won or lost...
...them, no matter what the cost. Their capture would clear the Allies out of New Guinea, deny Torres Strait to Allied shipping, give the Japanese forward bases from which to bomb northern Australia, and forge the final links in a chain of defensive holes in the ground that would stretch from the Solomons to the Aleutians...
Harvard, however, bounded back in the stretch half of the seventh, manufacturing two runs out of two singles, a bunt, and an error. Heath started things off with his final safety of the day, a line drive to left field. Gallagher reached on a perfect bunt down the first base path. After Heath was forced at third by Fitzgibons' attempted sacrifice Flynn came through with a sharp single to center field, scoring Gallagher. Flynn moved to second and Fitzgibbons to third on the throw-in. After fanning Slattery, Judge of BU let loose with a prodigious heave to the fence...
...Nine miles inland they reached a timbered stretch, on Sugar Creek, and here they pitched a camp. . . . Winter night came up beyond the grove. Supper was whatever you had brought with you. . . . Afterward, they sang hymns, prayed, and listened to instruction from the elders. . . . That night on Sugar Creek nine babies were born...