Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...middle of the night, telling newspapermen nothing about it, Nixon headed for the Hungarian border in a limousine, transferring to a tractor for the last muddy stretch. He arrived just as two Hungarian girls were sneaking across the border in the predawn light. He asked them, as he had asked many of the refugees, what made them want to escape. "A search for safety," was the reply through an interpreter. The girls were astonished to learn his identity. Said Nixon later: "It wasn't me, of course, but my office that impressed and surprised them-the fact that...
...more. His silences must be heard to be appreciated. Author John Dos Passos, an old friend, recalls that often when they had tea together, he "felt that Hopper was on the verge of saying something, but he never did." Painter Louis Bouche once chatted for a long stretch to Hopper, without getting the least response, and finally blurted: "Oh hell, peekaboo!" Even Mrs. Hopper (who does the family's share of talking) confesses that "sometimes talking with Eddie is just like dropping a stone in a well, except that it doesn't thump when it hits bottom...
...been of a different temperament when he entered the University of Wisconsin in 1953, David Falk of Hampton, Va. might have been satisfied to stretch the $5,000 his father had given him to cover his next four years. But instead of making a budget, Falk decided to indulge in a bit of extracurricular tycoonery...
...Year's End (Dec. 30, 3 p.m.) will be CBS's sign-off to 1956. In a three-hour stretch, commentators will sum up the science, social and political stories of the year...
This is less a book than a Christmas card. With the help of some singularly uninspiring illustrations, the publishers have contrived to stretch the American edition of T. S. Eliot's first poem since Four Quartets-all of 34 lines long-into a book of ten pages. Eliot at Christmastime, as might be expected, is no Dickens. He opens magisterially: "There are several attitudes towards Christmas''-and proceeds to plead for the child's attitude. He cannot, of course, help noticing the cosmic worm in the plum pudding ("The awareness of death, the consciousness of failure...