Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program offered to Congress by President Eisenhower last week to provide the nation's economy -with more breathing space, many of the 25 proposals favored the businessman (see BUSINESS). From the left came cries of "favoritism," but closer inspection showed that the tax plan had a two-way stretch, and the individual taxpayer had not been left out of its ample benefits. Items...
...This] stretch ... of country ... is one of the most fascinating and picturesque in the nation," the Justice wrote. "It is a refuge, a place of retreat, a long stretch of quiet and peace at the Capitol's back door-a wilderness area where man can be alone with his thoughts, a sanctuary where he can commune with God and with nature ... I wish the man who wrote your editorial would take time off and come with me. We would go with packs on our backs and walk the 185 miles to Cumberland. I feel [;that].... he would return...
...Pearl Harbor attack came three days after the paper began publishing, and Dowling was sent to Honolulu, a move that was to keep him hopping around the Pacific and the Far East for the next five years. This period included a year in Peking and a five-week stretch of detention under "house arrest" by the Russians during a trip into Manchuria to report on the movement of heavy industry to the Soviet...
...Jersey's former Republican Congressman J. Parnell Thomas, 58, onetime head of the House Un-American Activities Committee, who served a nine-month federal penitentiary stretch in 1949-50 for padding his Congressional payroll and taking kickbacks, was homesick for the Capitol. He said that he is "thinking about the possibility" of running for Congress again. In strongly Republican Bergen County, where many onetime Thomas constituents are still convinced that J. Parnell was framed by vengeful leftists, the possibility did not seem outlandish...
...butterfly, gently sipping the sweetness of nature and making it the subject of canvases so subtle and thinly brushed as to seem evanescent. He lived in London, made his mission "revealing the Thames to the people who lived on it but had previously only seen it as a stretch of water...