Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smile, or at least you stretch your mouth and put it up at the corners, and then you [here he makes a little spitting noise that sounds like "thhsp!"] flick a hair off with the end of your tongue, a tiny hair, and that's all there...
Native Dancer could and did, though, pounding down the home stretch for the last quarter-mile, the two horses were never more than half a length apart. Reported the Dancer's jockey, Eric Guerin: "After he got in front, he began to loaf, as usual. So I hit him three or four times just to keep him at work." The Dancer stayed on the job long enough to win by a neck in a dashing 2:283/5, one of the fastest Belmont Stakes in history, and just two-fifths off the record set by Count Fleet...
...stretch-out in military preparations...
...Chicago one day last week. White Sox Pitcher Billy Pierce, a lefthander, stared moodily down the 60-ft. stretch between the mound and home plate and faced a special problem. At the plate stood a corn-haired youngster just four years out of an Oklahoma high school, with NEW YORK spelled out in block letters on his flannel shirt, a big numeral 7 on his back. As it must to all other clubs in the American League, came the plaguing question: What does a pitcher throw to Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees...
...after he first picked up a racket as a youngster in Germantown, Pa., he piled up a record unmatched: 31 U.S. titles, including a singles sweep from 1920 to 1925, three Wimbledon titles (he was the first American to win in England), eleven Davis Cup teams, including a phenomenal stretch from 1920 to 1925 when he never lost a match. Only one player ever got under Tilden's weather-beaten skin: France's Rene Lacoste, one of the famed "Four Musketeers" who wrested the Davis Cup from the U.S. in 1927. Remarked haughty Bill Tilden: "The monotonous regularity...