Word: abreast
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...evening in Paris. Young François Gane and his friend Baumier were strolling along quietly when they saw the provocative form of a strange young lady walking ahead of them. "A little before they came abreast of her, Baumier with an ample movement of his arm, as if to catch a low volley ball, slapped her buttocks resoundingly." As he did so he roared: "Goddamn little chicken...
...members of the graduating class of 1953 assembled in front of Holworthy Hall at 9:30 a.m. Preceded by the University band, the seniors marched, two abreast, along the roped-off path leading to the Tercentary Theatre...
Nevertheless, Bwana Devil had what it took. Three-D had arrived. The next morning a half-delirious theater manager was shouting at Gunzburg over the telephone: "It's the most fabulous thing we've ever seen! They're standing four abreast all the way down to the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood and all the way around the block downtown!" In its first week Bwana smashed house records at the box office, rang up $95,000 at the two theaters. Rushed into a Chicago theater, it broke some more records...
...coaches and coxswains were never familiarized with the course until race day. There were no markers set up beyond the finish line for the coxes to aim at and the lanes were never marked. As a result, with a course big enough to accommodate ten or fifteen crews abreast, the six shells racing each other wandered all over the course...
...intense concentration that the watching thousands at dockside and in office buildings could feel. The tense delicacy of the maneuvers made a French sea dog the waterside hero of the week. When Captain Franck Garrigue the beaming master of the Ile de France, brought his 44,356-ton liner abreast of the French Line pier, he did not hesitate. Quick as an eel, he wheeled the Ile around and slid her into the slip in just 19 minutes. Even the pickets cheered. The glory and honor of France were unblemished, and the 1936 song of Jerome Kern...