Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...touchdowns. Yale led only by 6 to 0 at the half, Princeton was ahead, 14 to 7, until the last quarter, and Dartmouth and Pennsylvania won by a touchdown. In the Yale and Princeton games it was a question of Brown's inadequate depth allowing the other team to stretch the score...
Third Day. In a stretch of dune country in north-central Sinai, at a vital road junction called Abu Aweigila, the Egyptians threw their one fierce punch. Israeli Shermans and AMXs ran into a strong battalion of Egyptian armor, veered away from it while Israeli infantry moved to the attack. Overhead, Israeli Mysteres spotted a major reinforcing column (it apparently was a full corps of up to 50,000 men) lumbering eastward along the macadam road from Ismailia. Egyptian Vampires and MIGs came in to cover the reinforcements, fell into battle with Israeli fighters. By late...
...itself against an Israeli invasion, although their presence might also give Israel the pretext for invading Jordan. By expanding eastward to the Jordan River, Israel could, at Jordan's expense, straighten out its borders (at one point only seven miles wide). That would leave Jordan with a wide stretch of desert, and not much to live on. One of the fears agitating Jordan was that the friends who came to help might stay on to batten on the pieces...
...field through the first two quarters, moved into contention on the turn. Bold Ruler, one of the early front runners, flicked another horse's heel while moving away from the rail, lurched and was left hopelessly behind. Swinging to the outside, Jockey Hartack nudged Barbizon into a thundering stretch drive that carried him past the field to a thin victory over Runner-Up Federal Hill. For his day's work, Barbizon collected a whopping $168,430.50, more than any other two-year-old ever won at one crack. "He's still green as grass," said Jockey Hartack...
Part of the trouble is that production, already at a peak 144% of the 1947-49 index, is increasingly hard put to supply the insatiable demand for goods and services. On top of that, the enormous expansion programs for virtually every U.S. industry may stretch the economy even thinner next year. After pouring some $29 billion into new investment in 1955, U.S. business expanded at the rate of $36 billion in 1956's first half, about 25% faster than last year...