Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beach where the four men landed was a stretch of sand half-hidden by high grass and the low rolling dunes of Long Island's south shore, near Amagansett. They worked fast, dug a hole, gingerly buried a number of wooden boxes unloaded from their boat, finally buried the collapsible rubber boat itself, covered everything with sand. Then they headed swiftly for New York...
...Memorial Hall show, Network men said, set up a new record for the College radio station in the number of hours of consecutive broadcasting. Before Thursday the Network's longest period on the air had been the six hour stretch in May which, carrying the Kirkland House Dance broadcast, lasted until 1:30 o'clock in the morning...
...could only gnaw a pig's knuckle and go home. Said he: "After I got where I could get decent food I ate too much and got fierce pains in my stomach. The doctors tell me my stomach shrank while I was in jail and I tried to stretch it too fast...
Until after the seventh-inning stretch the contest was a scoreless deadlock, with the pitching of Ed Murphy and Berg the chief attraction. Then, sparked by a sudden vocal surge from the fans, the Crimson began to click...
...platters. Sole exception: Bing Crosby. This reshuffling was inevitable after the mid-April WPB order, cutting the use of all-important shellac in phonograph records by 70%. Another consequence: manufacturers required from distributors one old record for every three new ones bought. Reason: reclaimed materials stretch virgin shellac three times as far. The man in the street did not yet have to chip in with old records, but many retail shops were angling for them, paying 2½? to 3? a record...