Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just 8:30 a.m., but the room is already throbbing with the ardent and unabashed pursuit of money. As the pace picks up, the shouts of jostling men rise like the roar of the crowd at Churchill Downs when it's neck and neck in the home stretch of the Kentucky Derby. The participants are dressed like stockroom clerks in brightly colored cloth jackets, and they are flashing elaborate hand signals to each other and yelling phrases in a jargon all their own. "Even 17 D's!" cries one exasperated figure as he elbows for room. Another...
Musicals have family trees these days. The Grand Tour found favor on Broadway as Jacobowsky and the Colonel in 1944 and again as a 1958 film titled Me and the Colonel. It deserves to stretch out its winning streak with the current version, which is endearing, amusing, exuberant and poignantly humane...
...broadest and grandest of measurements, this crisis crescent envisioned by President Carter's National Security Adviser reaches all the way from Indochina to southern Africa. In practical terms, however, what Brzezinski is really speaking of are the nations that stretch across the southern flank of the Soviet Union from the Indian subcontinent to Turkey, and southward through the Arabian Peninsula to the Horn of Africa. The center of gravity of this arc is Iran, the world's fourth largest oil producer and for more than two decades a citadel of U.S. military and economic strength in the Middle...
...another sportsman, Richard Carlsberg, 46, opened Pines Recreational Park, a 7,000-acre stretch of timberland in the sparsely populated northeast corner of the state (near Alturas). Facilities include a general store, laundromat and gas station, all of which made the $995 base price for shares so inviting that more than a few campers were incredulous about the park's land value. Doubts soon dissolved: so far, 2,800 ownerships have been sold (ceiling...
...Democrats insisted that Gore's willingness to bite the hand that writes the big checks proves his independence. But Republicans called that line a hypocritical stretch for "Hollywood's candidate." The conservative group American Renewal sniffed, "World-class chutzpah...