Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...griddle-flat stretch of Florida coast just south of Daytona Beach one day last week, the air was split by the thunder of 111 motorcycles revving up at once. A white flag waved, and four ranks of cyclists in crash helmets and goggles blasted off along the rock-hard sand. Ahead lay 48 laps of speed work on a 4.2-mile course-and a chance at the National Motorcycle Championship...
Little's sympathetic understanding of the undergraduate stems from a long period in Cambridge as both an administrator and teacher. He graduated from Harvard in 1918, and after a stretch in the Navy returned to the University to work toward his Master's degree. During the next fifteen years he alternated between University Hall and Waren House as an Instructor in English and an assistant dean. In 1935 while Curator of the Theatre Collection in Widener, he received his Ph.D...
...back lawn under the budding magnolias. When the photographers arrived, David obligingly lifted Skunky, the family's portly Scotty, for a moment, but had to give it up. "She's too fat," he puffed. Then he and curly-headed Barbara Anne peddled their tricycles over a stretch of grass made slightly mangy lately by grandfather's golfing divots...
...Knobloch is a veteran but inept burglar, with a record of four arrests and three convictions. He had finished one stretch in an East Berlin jail and was headed for a trial that might bring him another when he was visited by a top East German secret police bureaucrat known to him only as "Paul." Paul had a bargain to offer. If Knobloch would agree to help kidnap Dr. Walter Linse, the No. 2 man in the anti-Communist Investigating Committee of Free Jurists, he himself would be set free; if he refused, Knobloch would find himself in jail...
Courtly Bows. Whistler's professional "mission" was "revealing the Thames to the people who lived on it but had previously only seen it as a stretch of water." His avocation was what he called "the gentle art of making enemies." A lady who asked him if he thought a certain sketch indecent was told, "No, madam, but your question is." When one of his students who had painted a "red elbow with green shadows" argued, "I am sure I just paint what I see," the Master answered, "Ah, but the shock will come when you see what you paint...