Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...STRETCH ON THE RIVER (242 pp.)-Richard Blssell-Little, Brown...
...became coxswain of the crew when he graduated from Harvard in 1936 he shipped out on a Standard Oil tanker bound for South America. Finally he went to work as deck hand, mate and pilot on a succession of Mississippi river boats-diesel towboats and stern-wheelers. A Stretch on the River is his first, largely autobiographical novel based on those days...
Sword & Umbrella. Earlier, Correspondent Sydney Smith of the London Daily Express cabled: "The final desperate stretch of routed South Koreans ranged from 16-wheeled tank-recovery vehicles to the smallest patrol cars . . . On some trucks I saw senior Korean unit commanders sitting among their troops, wearing white gloves, and carrying an official sword in one hand, and in the other a tree bough held over their heads like an umbrella. The South Koreans' terror of the Yaks' strafing has turned a sprig of leaves into a symbol of security...
...stretch, the race had settled down to a match between Dragon's speedy young mare Nituzza and Wave's pace-setting Miranda. Twice Nituzza's jockey tried to pass; twice Miranda's jockey flailed him across the face with his long, beef-sinew whip. Miranda won by a length. The winner's purse: 360 lire (about...
...hulking, white-mustached figure of some 200 lbs., immensely vain (at times sporting 20 medals) and prodigiously philandering (he had six wives in all, two at once in 1871). Ned wrote more words than most men speak, 10,000 a day in one six-day stretch, once blurting out an entire three-act play in four hours...