Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was why last week U.S. eyes & ears were fixed on that great stretch of unknown land thousands of miles away; a land few Americans had ever seen, and whose place names few Americans could pronounce. On the reaches of Russia, from the Barents Sea to the Black Sea, World War II would be very nearly decided. Ahead lay six months of good military weather. In those six months probably lay the great decisions of the 20th Century...
Though sentries patrolled every 50 yards of barbed wire, Mrs. Guest knew a place where she and Anthony might get through. When the sentry patrolling that stretch had his back turned, the mother and child crawled a few yards from occupied darkness to unoccupied darkness. Ten minutes afterward, some other refugees following them through the wire were shot dead...
...main Crimson threat came in the fifth, when Hoss Hamlen was tagged out at the plate, trying to stretch his long triple into a home run. Don Richards, left fielder, fanned three times with runners on second and third...
...chrysanthemum plant, used to be imported largely from Japan. In recent years coffeegrowers in Britain's Kenya Colony in Africa have cultivated the plant, now grow enough for their own use and the whole U.S. besides-if the U.S. can get it. Chemists, however, have discovered ways to stretch the pyrethrum supply by adding "synergistic" compounds-sesamin from sesame oil and asarinin from the southern prickly-ash bark-which make a more poisonous blend than pyrethrum alone...
...Pandiculate for Health! Grow Tall! Get Well! Be Young!" Exuberant ads like this, running in health-fad magazines since 1914, have proclaimed the virtues of a spine-stretching device called the "Pandiculator." The Post Office last fortnight barred the promoter of this fraud from using the U.S. mail. A rectangular box about four feet long, worked on the principle of a medieval rack, the Pandiculator has T-shaped iron posts at each end, one fixed, the other movable on a cable pulley system. To pandiculate, all a gull had to do was lie down on the box, strap his head...