Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still a large and tightly knit movement. Peru, a politically backward country, had no mass party to take its place. But Haya's future was something else. His own disciples had begun to criticize him. Nobody could forget that in the party's first long stretch underground (1936-45), the redoubtable chieftain had led his anti-Communist leftists from inside Peru without once being caught. But now, many Peruvians felt that it would be miraculous if he ever came back. Said an Aprista: "I don't think Haya killed Graña-but I believe...
...into two main sections which direct political control of the whole domestic economy, and economic espionage throughout the world." The first maintains a secret police network covering all Russian economic enterprises, keeps all production statistics (which are state secrets), and administers forced labor. But the activities of the EKU "stretch out far beyond the borders of the U.S.S.R. Here the main aim of the EKU is the disorganization of the world economy: inciting class war, aggravating industrial crises, organizing strikes." In short, the EKU's "Foreign Sector" is Russia's High Command for her war against the Marshall...
...surface is in the shadow for a substantial part of the day," he scaled it down to .8. If he had a room overlooking a park or "a remarkable panorama," he charged himself 1.1, but reduced it if he could see only "a wide street or court or a stretch of grass at least 15 meters wide and without obstructions [not counting trees]." For a really super-duper view he boosted the factor to 1.3. (Cracked the Canard Enchainé, witty Paris weekly: "What's the coefficient for a view of Mistinguette's legs...
After the excitement of a stretch in the Gordon Highlanders during World War I, life in Scotland's coastal town of Perth seemed a dull prospect to young Bill Hutton. Instead of going home at war's end, he signed up with the Shanghai police. From time to time in the next 20 years, he would turn up on brief leave and let the Perth neighbors goggle at his strapping, soldierly bearing and his fierce military mustache. His father, old Bill Hutton, a railroad worker, seldom failed to point out the framed certificate on the wall awarding young...
...laughs a lot when she talks and soon she had me laughing with her. But this easy laughter didn't indicate a vacilating or pliant personality; it was not an invitation to conversation. It was, however, an indication of a very sunny disposition. She can read a lengthy stretch of medieval constitutional law (lapsing occasionally into Latin and Anglo-Saxon) with all the gusto and delight of Mary Margaret McBridge revealing a new recipe for banana cream...