Word: lengthen
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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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...
...this instance, with that engine, we had to lengthen the hood on the Grand Prix another 7 inches to get it in because of condenser problems-there are mechanical problems you've got to appreciate. You've got a real problem condensing the water in a steam engine. We've got an engine that weighs twice as much as the normal engine and has about half the power output...
...freshman fencing team routed M. I. T., 17-10, yesterday evening to lengthen its winning streak to three...