Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...they marshaled pickets for General Motors' headquarters (see BUSINESS). Alternate modes of nonpolluting transportation called for "bike-ins," balloon ascensions and pedestrian parades. Even cities joined the act. New York announced a ban on cars and the creation of pedestrian malls along 14th Street and a 45-block stretch of Fifth Avenue. Miami, never to be outdone, promised prizes to the "most polluted" floats in a huge, car-free "Dead Orange Parade," supposed to symbolize the effects of local pollution...
...side lights the figures of a man who has stopped paddling for a moment and of his passengers, an Indian boy and a fox. All three sit motionless, staring at the viewer as though he were sitting on the bank. The uniform pale yellow-grey sky seems to stretch in all directions beyond the frame that cuts...
...Bruins scored only one run in their first four games of the season, and in one stretch two weeks ago went scoreless in 26 of 27 straight innings. Brown's leading hitter is Jim MacAdams at ?297, but second baseman Bob Wiech is the biggest threat at the plate with four homers to his credit...
...face tensed as the horses approached the gate, and I watched him do the routine. "They are approaching the gate.... They're in the gate.... They're off!" ... His voice droned out the places and started over again with the new order. As the horses came into the stretch, the rumble of the crowd grew louder. Isolated cries drifted up to the announcer's box, and then all was lost in a general confusion of voices...
...They're at the post.... They're in the gate.... And they're off!" "And it's Sitka D. on the outside, followed by Great Mystery, followed by Freezing Rain, then it's..." As the horses approached the stretch, the crowd began responding to the announcer's litany. "And it's Great Mystery, then Sitka...