Word: lengthening
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
WHICH IS TOUGH on sombody 55. And on Riggs the running told. He began to lag approaching net, and fumble easy shots from noman's land. He played for time, pussy-footing between points -- meanwhile, King pushed her pace, hunching up her shoulders to lengthen her stride, and grinned into the camera. By the third set, Riggs was playing like a man being stoned, and his last game was pure throwaway. He slapped and missed two easy forehands, double-faulted at deuce, and on match point stuffed a sure putaway into the net. It was as if he had played...
Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Elmo Zumwalt has banished bell-bottoms and allowed sideburns to lengthen and beards to flourish among his men. However, these will be but footnotes to his reputation as a radical admiral if two members of Congress get their wish: Michigan Congressman Jack McDonald and New York Senator Jacob Javits want the Navy to admit women to Annapolis. Both Republican legislators plan to nominate coeds for admission to the Naval Academy, for 126 years the all-male training ground of Navy officers...
...first recommendation would lengthen the required classes from two or three hours to four hours a week. In the second semester, students could continue their courses for two hours a week or take electives...
...oppressive silence fell over the spectators, Gourdin started, his spikes swishing through the air. They flashed in the sunlight and his powerful strides had carried him to the edge of the jumping pit. He had measured his stride perfectly, and he did not have to falter or shorten or lengthen it. Then he bunched his strong body together, and, as he leaped high and far, it looked as if he were a human projectile fired from some unseen and unheard...
Toward dusk, as the shadows lengthen around the Royal pool, the reporters and diplomats talk. The joke is that if a rumor travels twice around the pool in substantially the same form, then it must be true. As night descends over the exquisite spires and curved roofs of the city, prostitutes aboard pedicabs come silently out of the shadows like butterflies beckoning for attention. The bars close early and the streets are soon deserted. At Madam Chum's, a few bleary-eyed Westerners smoke away their despair for 600 per pipe of opium. Geckos croak in the darkness...