Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Every horseplayer who had come to Laurel, Md. for the third running of the Washington, D.C. International knew the skittish three-year-old as a notorious equine neurotic. Balky as a kid who always refuses to perform for company, he had an exasperating habit of quitting in a close stretch drive...
...rebellion in Kenya was two years old last week. In that bloody stretch of time the Mau Mau have killed or wounded 2,000 loyal Kikuyu natives, 900 African or European soldiers and 27 innocent European civilians. The expensive war against them (present cost: $2,800,000 a month) has resulted in the slaying of 6,741 Mau Mau and the capture...
Throughout the years, The Duke has always insisted on quality. Occasionally, when things have not suited him, he could lash out at his boys ("You're barbarians! You're uncivilized! You're rude!"). But mostly, he has found other ways of making them stretch their minds. Every morning he has been on hand to have breakfast with them; after that, he guided them spiritually from the pulpit in chapel. He conducted his own Bible class, and in the afternoon, his dog Rani trotting at his side, he was apt to lead a group of boys into...
...Manhattan's Traffic Court one morning last week, a muscular scofflaw named Johnny Saxton stepped to the bar. He had already paid a $600 fine for ignoring a fistful of parking tickets; now he was threatened with a 15-day stretch in the workhouse. Chief Magistrate John M. Murtagh glared at the young (24) Negro, listened to his lawyer's plea for mercy, and surprised every cop in the city by suspending Saxton's sentence...
...Midas touch in the hope that everything he blesses will turn to votes. By tacitly lending his name to every politician who marches under the Republican banner, however, Mr. Eisenhower has picked up some rather seedy traveling companions. The last two years have shown that there is more stretch in the name Eisenhower than in most, but it can't begin to cross the ideological chasm that separates Clifford Case from Joe Meek...