Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...CHUBBY little girl in blue stretch-pants and a sweatshirt walked up and said, by way of introduction, "Hi, do you like to shoot guns? I do. I have my own 22 and my father makes bullets." She held up a lump of metal hanging from a thin chain around her neck. "He made this necklace. It's a bullet...
...recovery operations stretched to 15 months-the longest and costliest in mining history-some of the widows sought an end to the strain of wondering "when the phone will ring to say they've found him." Worried that their husbands' bodies had been incinerated in the intense fires of the explosions, and discouraged by Consolidation Coal Co.'s reports that recovery could stretch over years, they agreed to a plan that would seal off from commercial production the portion of the mine containing the most inaccessible bodies. That area would become a cemetery, and a monument...
Playing tight defense and working as a team on offense. Harvard held Dartmouth without a field goal for a six minute stretch midway through the first half and moved ahead 29-20. Then the Big Green capitalized on a series of Crimson turnovers to narrow the gap to 41-37 at half-time...
...brief stretch during the middle of the second half, the Harvard basketball team played strong, sure-handed ball against a spotty Boston University squad, and eventually won its season opener, 83-69, last night in the first round of the Beanpot Tournament at the Boston Garden...
...early hours after the storm, some 350 bodies were sighted along one eight-mile stretch of coastline. In the Bay of Bengal, one ship was torn apart and scores of other craft were missing. The greatest devastation apparently hit the islands of Hatia and Dakhin Shahbazpur, part of which was washed into the sea. Estimates of casualties ranged from 20,000 to 60,000, which would make it the region's worst cyclone of the century and second only to the deadly cyclone of 1876, which took an estimated 200,000 lives...