Word: stretching
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Crane Beach. Ipswich. This is a legend. The huge stretch of Ipswich land was once owned by the family which brought you America Standard toilets and seats, and the Castle overlooking the beach (on Castle Hill) was their home. Castle Hill is now open to the public, and it is often used for weddings. Crane Beach is probably the North Shore's most popular beach, and all of the property is owned and maintained by the Trustees of Reservations...
...Merrill's own repertoire includes a Horatian ode, several forms of sonnets, a slightly modified villanelle and a stretch of Dantesque terza rima...
...would not be a stretch to call her Alice in Wonderland. In the behind-the-mirror world of Washington, where many things are curiouser and curiouser, and even the knaves have to run faster to keep up, Alice Rivlin is the self-professed "official purveyor of bad news to the Congress." As head of the Congressional Budget Office, she and her 200-person staff figure out what proposed programs will really cost, and her cool counsel has stopped many of them in the gleam-in-the-eye stage...
...mayor of Louisville. Outgoing Governor Julian Carroll, whose administration has been tainted by scandal, was backing his former commerce commissioner, Terry McBrayer. Spunky Lieutenant Governor Thelma Stovall had strengthened her own candidacy by calling a special legislative session to consider tax cuts. As the pack turned into the home stretch, the mud started to fly. Governor Carroll took to the stump to attack Brown, once a close friend, whom he accused of refusing to release his income tax returns in order to conceal his gambling debts. Even Colonel Sanders let it be known that he regarded Brown as a "skunk...
...education is unfavorable. Current government spending problems and reordering of national priorities threaten, as one longtime observer puts it, "to once again leave education out in the cold." The battle over a Cabinet-level Department of Education is no mere bureacratic reshuffling; the proposal and its advocates and opponents stretch from the inner sanctum of the Oval Office to Longfellow Hall at Harvard's Ed School...