Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rice, occasionally embellished by fish heads and seaweed. Forbidden to talk to each other, the prisoners were compelled to sit on the floor, in rows, for easier counting during change of guards. A favorite discipline forced them to sit, with heads bowed, as long as eight hours at a stretch, facing Tokyo. They called this the "New Order Kneeling Posture...
...shell pink. Adrian's office is in blue-green, even the radio and cigaret stand. In the custom room, next to his office, the drapes are hand-woven of capeskin, suede and gold metallic strands, and hang from ceiling to floor. In the retail room the drapes also stretch from ceiling to floor, but here they are of cheap cotton duck...
...lucky, however, in that his Luftwaffe commander is jowly, droop-mouthed Field Marshal Hugo Sperrle. Fat as he is, Sperrle knows how to move fast, how to stretch an air force and still get the most out of it. One of Göring's white-haired (before he lost it) boys, Hugo Sperrle commanded the famed Condor Legion in Spain, did wonders with short and ill-assorted equipment. He went through Poland, the Lowlands, France. He knows what air war is about...
Only familiar face in the 440 was that of Fred Withington, who took a second behind Larry Stewart of M. I. T. after passing Tom McKenna of Concord High in the home stretch. Max Pincus ran a strong race in the 880, but the powerful sprint of Bob Miller of M. I. T., Who had already won the mile, left Pincus in second place...
...Boeing's women employes is Mrs. Sophus Keith Winther, wife of an English professor at the University of Washington. Mrs. Winther worked one 45-day stretch on the assembly line (eight hours a day) without noticeable fatigue. War defeats do not depress her; they make her work harder...