Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York mayoralty campaign turned into the home -stretch last week, the Republican candidate, Harold Riegelman, bolted off to Washington for a well heralded conference with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Candidate Riegelman, with an eye on New York's powerful Jewish vote, wanted to talk to Dulles about the U.S.'s cancellation of economic aid to Israel, which came after Israel had defied the order of the United Nations truce commission to stop work on a dam in a demilitarized zone on the Syrian border. Riegelman stayed with Dulles for an hour and a half, then appeared...
Gambler Frank Costello, 62, was sprung from the federal pen in Milan, Mich., after serving 14½ months of his 18-month sentence for contempt of Congress. Although Costello got time cut off his stretch for good behavior, he was no sooner out of the prison gate than he was in trouble again. Pursued by a carload of persistent newsmen, he ordered his chauffeur to step on the gas. sent his black Cadillac hurtling along the 45 miles to Detroit at 80 m.p.h. (Michigan speed limit: "Reasonable and proper"). Twice overtaken by the reporters, Frank croaked peevishly: "Will you fellows...
...models of industry that they are reputed to be. They spend many waking hours just lazing around or sunning themselves. They stage mock-battles and wrestling matches. Before they sleep they often make themselves comfortable by scooping smooth hollows in the soil. When they wake they stretch their six legs and open their mandibles wide as if they were yawning...
Both ends of the new super-expressway have already been built, but the connecting, stretch across the city is still unstarted. Right of way to property in the highway's path must first be bought and the buildings eventually destroyed...
...stock. But G.E. hopes to get a little of the money back. It announced a new nursing nipple made out of silicone rubber, instead of natural rubber. The nipples, said G.E.. will last more than a year and the holes will not clog and the nipple will not stretch out of shape...