Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four-lane Autobahn snakes along over no fewer than 29 vulnerable bridges, among them the quartermile span over the Elbe River, still only half replaced since its total destruction by Allied bombers in World War II; the railroad has 49 bridges. Destruction of a single bridge or a short stretch of rail or highway would halt a column or train in country commanded by superior forces...
...North American defense terms, the most sensitive area of ocean on the globe is the stretch of the North Atlantic between Newfoundland and the Scotch coast. Over this area would fly any Russian bombers trying to end-run U.S.Canadian continental defenses; through these waters would likely come Russian submarines slipping out through the Norwegian Sea bound for attacks on Atlantic shipping or coastal cities. For more than a year, the U.S. Navy's around-the-clock fleets of radar patrol planes and radar picket ships have been keenly aware of Russia's fleet of radar-equipped fishing trawlers...
...five minute stretch midway through the second half of last night's contest at the I.A.B., favored Yale outscored the varsity, 13 to 1, thus turning an extremely close game into an 82-71 Eli triumph. George Harrington, closing out his brilliant career, led both teams with 27 points, outscoring Yale's ace, Larry Downs, by three...
People instinctively turn to Dr. Chance as a kind of confessor, but when he takes on the troubles of a U.S. Catholic named Macgrady, he finds a case that would stretch the capacities of the wisest priest. Macgrady is a rich idler who has lived beyond his means. He has borrowed a fortune from the local crime syndicate, doctors in Madrid have told him that he has cancer, and he is nagged by the conviction that as a bad Catholic he has small chance of dying in a state of grace. Dr. Chance seems to him the man who might...
...Brush, a four-year-old filly, outran favored C. W. ("Big Smitty") Smith's Hillsdale in the stretch, set a world record of 1:46 2/5 for a mile and a furlong, to win the $58,100 San Antonio Handicap at California's Santa Anita...