Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elections, emerged with 21 of 59 seats in the National Assembly. Governmental graft, corruption and inefficiency were doing much of the Reds' work for them. In November, Communist North Viet Nam, thinking it had Laos on the run, accused it of border violations, then occupied a stretch of Laotian territory with 3,000 troops...
...excellent proposal to found an Arts Center on a stretch of riverbank land adjoining Soldiers Field Road has come to seem less a cultural crusade than a political power play. Plans drawn up by the Metropolitan Boston Arts Center ("MeBAC"), a group formed to direct the project, threaten not only to ruin local classical drama companies by excluding them from the Center, but also, because of this apparent inequity, to founder the whole project before it gets under...
...undefeated varsity squash team will attempt to stretch its record to 5-0 this afternoon when it meets Williams at 4 p.m. on the Hemenway Courts. Captain Charlie Hamm will have the task of facing the Ephmen's experienced number one man in what promises to be the most exciting match of the afternoon...
...onetime Minister of Labor, Ibrahim, 40, has the right to the title Moulay, which is applied to descendants of the Prophet, but he is widely known as the Red Sherif. Before independence, the French jailed Sorbonne-educated Abdallah Ibrahim five times, once for an eight-year stretch. Since independence, backed by the powerful (600,000 members) Union Marocaine du Travail, the nation's only trade union, Ibrahim has ranted against foreigners, talked of nationalizing foreign interests and demanded the ouster of U.S., French and Spanish troops from their bases in Morocco. "Independence is not liberty," he declared recently...
...Menard branch of the Illinois State Penitentiary. Menard's Editor David R. Saunders has had job offers from several newspapers and a wire service. But it will be a while before he goes to press for pay: he has 32 years yet to serve on a 40-year stretch for murder...