Word: stretched
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...invade Saudi Arabia, Iraqi tanks would have to head south from Kuwait along a 40-mile-wide stretch of open terrain that air force officers refer to as a "tank-shooting gallery." There is no natural cover, and tanks can be spotted readily by the tall, brown columns of dust they raise. These forces would be vulnerable to F-16s, Saudi and British Tornados, and possibly F-111s now on station in Turkey, carrying 2,000-lb. laser-guided bombs and Maverick missiles. Armored, low-flying A-10 Thunderbolts would riddle the tanks with armor-piercing depleted-uranium slugs from...
...United Church of Christ's Commission for Racial Justice, is that 3 of every 5 black and Hispanic Americans live in areas with uncontrolled toxic-waste sites. Many of the most notorious dumping grounds are located in the South. Among the worst is "cancer alley," a 75-mile stretch along the Mississippi River, from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, that is lined with oil refineries and petrochemical plants. The alley's abnormally high cancer rate has prompted one health worker to call it a massive human experiment. A big mess in Chicago is the work of "fly dumpers," unlicensed truckers...
...does none of these things. In her tight black stretch pants she recklessly sleds down the hill with the baby and feeds him Frosted Flakes when the pot roast burns. She gets all dreamy eyed when she dances around the living room to her Elvis records. No one speaks to her at PTA meetings or buys her Tupperware -- except the husbands, who further enrage their wives by giving it to them on their birthdays. The janitor throws out her oversweet, marshmallow-laden offering to the bake sale...
Croquet as played in this stretch of paradise is a far cry from the backyard game forced on kids to keep them from killing one another before the hot dogs are served. The grownup version is a maze of complicated tactics, arcane terminology and bizarre rules played against a ticking stopwatch. A good player must have the wrists of Jack Nicklaus, the concentration of Bobby Fischer and the eye of Minnesota Fats. Ricocheting at precisely the right spot off the steel wicket is one way to get the grapefruit-size ball through the narrow hoop, anchored an unforgiving...
Although German prose styles tend toward relative sparseness these days, a sentence can still stretch on well beyond the patience of the English speaker. One may be left exhausted and bewildered after navigating through cascades of clauses that lead to the elusive verb at the very end that explains everything. For sheer frustration, however, little compares with the task of remembering what gender each noun is and hence whether a der (masculine), die (feminine) or das (neuter) needs to be affixed in front of it. And then, of course, there are the declensions...