Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lies one of the most dismal landscapes in Europe. This is the heart of the rust belt: mile after mile of blackened smokestacks spew sulfurous coal smoke into the yellow sky; workers labor in ramshackle chemical and textile plants under Dickensian conditions of dirt and noise. To the east stretch crumbling tenements built 100 years ago; to the west sprawl ugly new developments virtually devoid of stores, cinemas or restaurants. Average monthly incomes would buy just $30 of goods in the West; "luxuries" ranging from women's shoes to oranges and shampoo are routinely unavailable in the dingy shops...
...long stretch of grass between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument is teeming with demonstrators who have come from universities across the country to demand that the politicians listen...
...answer. The survey asked respondents about eating, sleeping, dressing and mating habits, as well as skills and eccentricities. Can they whistle by putting their fingers in their mouths? (Eighty-three percent cannot.) Do they like the way they look in the nude? (Fifty-nine percent do not.) Some responses stretch credibility (70% said they had no unmatched socks in their drawers). Others reaffirm intractable vices (72% squeeze the toothpaste tube from...
...state and local officials were collecting congratulations on their efforts last week, troubling questions were being raised about two catastrophes: the collapse of a stretch of Interstate 880 in Oakland and the fall of a 50-ft. span on the Bay Bridge, which connects Oakland and San Francisco. In concentrating on the destructive potential of buildings, had government disaster planners overlooked the fragile condition of heavily traveled highways and bridges...
More than 100 people were evacuated yesterday afternoon from an Oakland housing project located within 10 feet of a four-block stretch of Interstate 880 abutting the portion that gave way in the quake...