Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jail atop Berkeley's two-story, grey stucco Hall of Justice the old crook, with the air of a man whose lifework was done, was garrulous about his career. Back in 1920, arrested for stealing a car, he learned safecracking from a fellow convict during a seven-year stretch in the New Mexico State Penitentiary in Santa Fe. Parry had stolen around $250,000 in his career, he bragged, and he had pulled 250 jobs. He didn't feel he had been greedy. Said he: "You've got to make a lot to get along. There...
...Thought. Peruvians are the world's No. 1 producers of crude cocaine, and also among its foremost users. Their country has an overabundance of coca leaves, from which the white-crystalline-powdered drug is refined. In the highland valleys of the Peruvian Andes, the green coca plants-stretch out for miles in cultivated fields, like wheat in Kansas. Use of the drug got its start after the Spanish conquest, when Peruvian Indians began chewing coca to offset the hunger and fatigue they suffered under their new masters. Later, miners took to chewing it to last out their long...
Droop-eyed Cinemactor Robert Mitchurn, out on good behavior after serving 50 days of a 60-day stretch for conspiracy to possess marijuana, considered his carefree days in poky: "I had privacy there. Nobody envied me, nobody wanted anything from me. Nobody wanted my bars or the bowl of pudding they shoved at me through the slot." But things would be different from now on for the actor who had been a $3,250-a-week idol of U.S. bobby-soxers: "I'm typed-a character. I guess I'll have to bear that all the rest...
...never a strong contender. Going into the stretch, three horses were still ahead of him and they stayed ahead. Out in front by eight lengths at the finish line was a rank outsider (66 to 1) named Russian Hero...
...What the crowd saw was a duel in coaching strategy with overtones of a championship chess match. Kentucky, which specializes in brisk, aggressive basketball, deliberately slowed down to the Aggies' own "slow death" pace. So artis-ically didx Kentucky control the ball that 'or one twelve-minute stretch the Aggies 'ailed to score a single field goal. When Oklahoma's big center, Bob Harris, went out on personal fouls in the second period, it was all over. By a score of 46-36, Kentucky became national collegiate champions for the second year...