Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only Yardling loss was the basketball team's 71 to 74 defeat at the hands of Dean Academy. Despite Jim Nolan's 23 points, the five failed in the stretch and dropped its first game in eight starts...
French Equatorial Africa is nearly four times the size of Texas. Population: about 4,000,000 near-savages, including Pygmies and the women shown in the U.S. by Ringling Bros, who stretch their lower lips to the size of soup plates. A few black "elites" are French citizens...
...Clothesline. For housewives plagued by sagging clotheslines, Louisville's Puritan Cordage Mills began national sale of a line which stays taut. Made of cotton braided over a Fiberglas core, it does not stretch appreciably even under the weight of a full load of wet clothes. Price: 89? per 50-ft. length...
Family Trouble. At the age of twelve, he saw his free-spending but improvident father clapped into debtors' prison. Young Charles did a five-month stretch of child labor in a shoe-polish factory in the Strand; years later, he could not walk past the site because it made him cry. In his early 20s, he was jilted by a flirt whom he had worshiped for four years. On the rebound, he married Catherine Hogarth,* a pouter pigeon of a woman who gave him ten children but small joy. This brood he later called "the largest family ever known...
...pretty girls stretch and wink at that handsome blond who sits two seats over in Nat. Sci. The normal boy juggles his position on each ride so he can find out what each pretty girl is doing that night...