Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Sword & Umbrella. Earlier, Correspondent Sydney Smith of the London Daily Express cabled: "The final desperate stretch of routed South Koreans ranged from 16-wheeled tank-recovery vehicles to the smallest patrol cars . . . On some trucks I saw senior Korean unit commanders sitting among their troops, wearing white gloves, and carrying an official sword in one hand, and in the other a tree bough held over their heads like an umbrella. The South Koreans' terror of the Yaks' strafing has turned a sprig of leaves into a symbol of security...
...stretch, the race had settled down to a match between Dragon's speedy young mare Nituzza and Wave's pace-setting Miranda. Twice Nituzza's jockey tried to pass; twice Miranda's jockey flailed him across the face with his long, beef-sinew whip. Miranda won by a length. The winner's purse: 360 lire (about...
...homers. Homerun production, in fact, was up 27% over last year. Boston's Ted Williams had already hit 24, Cleveland's Al Rosen 25, and the Pirates' Ralph Kiner 20. But although most pitchers were beginning to seem lucky if they lasted through the seventh-inning stretch, there was more than a suspicion that the ball alone was not responsible...
...hulking, white-mustached figure of some 200 lbs., immensely vain (at times sporting 20 medals) and prodigiously philandering (he had six wives in all, two at once in 1871). Ned wrote more words than most men speak, 10,000 a day in one six-day stretch, once blurting out an entire three-act play in four hours...
...savvy Canadian Clint Hodgins, one of the top drivers in the U.S. last year, knew he had plenty of horse left as he hit the top of the stretch. He gave the mare her head. That was all Proximity needed. She swung the 36-pound sulky out for a clear shot at the brilliantly lighted finish, breezed effortlessly past the leaders and went on to win by 2½ lengths. Said one of Proximity's admirers afterwards: "It was just as if Hodgins had stepped on an accelerator...