Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...valley, just above the Mexican border, but its architectural boot print owes more to Los Angeles than Lonesome Dove. The city is a sprawling network of commercial strips, trailer parks and low-slung shingle-and-stucco developments ringed by citrus groves and cotton fields. If you think this overworked stretch of real estate is an unlikely habitat for Africa's black rhinoceros, spending a morning with Calvin Bentsen will change your mind...
...stories Trevor selects stretch from the distant past to the here and now, although the emphasis falls decidedly on 20th century works. Thus some brief tales translated from the original Gaelic lead to a succession of pieces by well-known names (Oliver Goldsmith, Maria Edgeworth, Oscar Wilde) and then to such acknowledged modern masterpieces as James Joyce's The Dead and Frank O'Connor's The Majesty of the Law. The familiar mixes easily with material less so: William Carleton's eerie The Death of a Devotee, Bernard Mac Laverty's grim Life Drawing. All this diversity is held together...
...traditional model of dean you would find something to do with students--but that's not what [McArthur's] here for," says first-year student Barry Johnson. "He's not accessible by any stretch. McArthur's not a howdy-doody, hand-shaking, walking-around-the-campus kind of dean...
Vellucci delights in unnecessary words. He cantalk for hours at a stretch, and will oftenbewilder speakers by "reminding" them of eventsthat occurred decades...
...laps in the final race, Rainey was boxed in by several runners. It wasn't until the last 200 meters that she was able to capitalize on her excellent kick to break through the box, passing USC's Michelle Taylor and Edith Nakiyingi of Iowa State down the final stretch...