Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rumbling Majorities. Sometimes Oberjohann was able to keep close to a herd for several minutes at a stretch without being detected; piece by piece he added to his elephant lore...
...latest Keyes novel, Steamboat Gothic, will not let anyone down. The style is reliably ponderous, the dialogue stilted and sometimes all but interminable. Steamboat has other tried & tested ingredients. It covers a good long stretch of time (1869-1930) following the fortunes of the Batchelor family on a plantation in Louisiana. Author Keyes knows her Louisiana, proves it with a foreword on sources, a bibliography of steamboating, and all her usual period impedimenta: details of dress, descriptions of houses and plantations. And there is enough clatter about wills, heirs and taxes to bemuse an expert on the Napoleonic Code...
...Aiken lay on the floor and was entranced by English poetry. He grew into a young man who fell "incurably, hopelessly and fatuously in love" with what he calls "Ariel's Island." But as he remained no less American at heart, his life became a tense, two-way stretch "of instability, restlessness and dissatisfaction." Aiken was "one minute the American correspondent for an English journal, the next the English correspondent for an American journal...
...sextet, captained by Walt Greeley, moves into the first phase of pre-season practice with a two-week training stretch beginning November 12. The team gets together for the first time then for daily workouts in the I.A.B. gym prior to their first Boston Arena practice...
...footprints into the wire, found a pair of wire-snippers dropped by a guard. Mieczyslaw cut the wire and tiptoed across a ten-meter band of smooth sand toward the next barrier, a low stake fence draped with barbed wire. He snipped his way through that, hurried across another stretch of smooth sand toward the third barrier, a higher fence. Suddenly he stopped. He had stepped on a wire concealed in the sand. Somewhere nearby a bell began to ring. Quickly he bent down and cut the electric wire, raced to the last fence and crawled under. "Then...