Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over the roller-coaster mile-and-a-half turf of Epsom Downs, Jockey Richards and Pinza justified their bettors' faith. At the last turn, famed Tattenham Corner, Richards saved ground by snugging close along the curving rail. In the stretch. where Richards' other horses have been tiring for a generation, Pinza proved to be a stayer. At the finish, Richards had his first Derby winner, by four lengths. Second in the field of 27: Queen Elizabeth's Aureole...
...Year Stretch...
...Down the stretch they pounded, with Jamie K. closing the gap under a whipping ride. A furlong from home, the Dancer, who races best when he's behind, began to lag. Guerin, for the second time in the Dancer's career, went to the whip for three smart whacks. The whacks were enough. Under the finish wire it was the Dancer by a neck. The time: 1:57 4/5, sixth fastest in the 77-year history of the Preakness...
What the premiere audience saw first was Dancer Francisco Moncion resting on a practice-room floor. He began to stretch and ripple his muscles, then caught sight of himself in an imaginary mirror and went into a self-admiring performance. Ballerina Tanaquil LeClercq entered, joined in the mirror work. Eventually Faun Moncion turned and kissed Nymph LeClercq on the cheek. As if jolted by seeing each other as real people rather than mirror images, faun and nymph broke apart. She glided away, and he lay down for another rest as the curtain fell...
...Stretch on the River (TIME, July 24, 1950) was a ribald first novel about the life Bissell had known as a Mississippi River pilot. In The Monongahela, he used more personal experience to pump some fresh water into the brackish Rivers of America series. More recently, Bissell has been working in his family's clothing factory in Dubuque, Iowa. The result is 7½ Cents, a novel about life in an Iowa pajama factory...