Word: stretches
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This passage, which evokes both Shakespeare's Cleopatra and the historic Queen Elizabeth (who were both barge owners), seemed to Pound as "too tum-te-tum at a stretch." Eliot fortunately could not help writing poetic poetry. His verse, as it was written, tum-te-tums today in many a mind, and the Boston lady's chair in that passage is still a "burnished throne...
...forward pass was starting to break in on the scene; and Harvard's own All-American Ham Fish was leading the way. In naming Fish to his 1913 All-time All-American team, Walter Camp termed him "a leader of men. He is six feet four, and the stretch of his arms into the air, as can be readily appreciable, is considerable," Camp said...
LIFTON'S approach, then, has a certain intuitive and empirical weight. But in seeking to pinpoint one key symbol and stretch it into a foundation for China's chaos, he strains his hypothesis. Lifton has an exceptional command of the data on the Cultural Revolution, and his scheme explains most of its history. But few of his observations (as he readily admits in the introduction) cannot be explained by political, sociological and economic theses. This would not argue against his approach if it were not for one thing: the tremendous difficulty of verifying generalizations about the psychological make...
...handicapper in a regular stakes race. All the other horses carried 12 to 34 Ibs. less, but the Doc still turned the race into a scene from National Velvet. He broke swiftly out of the starting gate under Jockey Braulio Baeza, opened up a three-length lead in the stretch, then turned it on and charged home a full six lengths ahead of the place horse, Kissin' George...
Aside from those races, the big bay has had it all his own way. He won his first four starts in 1966 as a two-year-old, swept six in one stretch in 1967. This year Dr. Fager has raced only in stakes events, romped to victory in such prestigious handicaps as Aqueduct's $108,000 Suburban, Saratoga's $53,500 Whitney and Chicago's $100,000 Washington Park, in which he set a new world record of 1 min. 32 1/5 sec. for the mile...