Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revelations left local residents badly shaken. Some refer to one stretch near Hanford as "death mile," where they claim to have counted an unusually high number of cancer deaths. Others point to their "downwinder" neck scars as evidence of thyroid operations that they blame on radioactive-iodine releases from the weapons plant. Robert Perkes, a farmer near Mesa, his wife and three of his daughters all take medication for underactive thyroid glands. "They didn't tell us the things that were going on," Perkes complains. "They were letting it fall all over us. They used us as guinea pigs...
...years the Eastern Airlines shuttle has ferried the high and mighty up and down the BosNyWash corridor with the comfort of a cattle car but the cachet of a stretch limousine. Every hour on the hour, Senators squeezed three abreast with generals, moguls, salesmen, anchormen, accountants and academics enduring the ultimate power trip. There were no reserved seats, no in-flight entertainment, no hot towels and, until recently, no coffee or tea. But the shuttle has never been about comfort. It is about urgency and influence, the mustn't-keep-the-Joint-Chiefs-waiting mentality, the snap of starched shirts...
Then the plane vacuums up the particles again and again sails east. American landscapes are so resonant -- the sere wrinklings of Nevada mountains that hold the topaz lake, the Badlands, the great agricultural geometries of the Midwest, the stretch of Georgia that Sherman blackened. We fly now steady east, against the time zones, into darkness. At last Boston, below, slides toward us like Christmas, strings of light on velvet. How festive American cities look from the air at night...
sprint: the final portion of the race. Many races are decided during this crucial stretch...
Rockport is a wealthy little town, with a thick stretch of boutiques and pedestrian walks; from the train-yard to the tourist promenade, Coke machine prices jump 25 percent. I asked about the ferry at the Sandy Bay Yacht Club--Mr. Cameron would be coming back from the island about one but wasn't sure if he was going to make another trip...