Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...without adding walking time (the way to save steps is to walk around the hub-like ring to a numbered corridor, then walk out the spoke to the proper ring). Each of its five outer walls is roughly the length of three football fields, and in all, its corridors stretch for 17½ miles...
...male and female are getting better acquainted, they go through a series of intricate ceremonials, each of which has its place in the growth of their relationship. First they bow formally, with outstretched flippers. Later, when they feel more intimate, they shake their heads, make a vibrating sound, or stretch out their necks and squawk. As their fondness ripens, the lovers preen one another or kiss by rubbing their necks together...
...platers chasing Man o' War. It was no longer a question of who would win the race, according to happy Dodger supporters, it was now just a matter of the Dodgers' winning margin. Even Brooklyn Manager Charley Dressen, after watching his team win its sixth straight and stretch its early-season lead to 6½ games, abandoned the manager's traditional attitude of dour dismay to admit: "The team that beats us can win the pennant-but nobody is going to beat...
...English heavyweights who are flattened by middle-aged American bartenders have earned the gratitude of our country. If once we started to feel that the process should be reversed, that middle-aged English bartenders should stretch the flower of American manhood on blood-blotted canvas, then we should indeed be in danger of losing our ineffable consciousness of inevitable superiority...
...Chinese brought up artillery and laid down heavy barrages. In the mountainous center, they were defending the approaches to another "iron triangle," somewhat smaller and farther to the north than the one through which they had staged their spring offensive. On a stretch of road south of the triangle, 1,600 Chinese shells fell in the space of 75 minutes. For four days in a row, U.S. columns attacking toward the triangle's western corner were stopped in their tracks...