Word: canter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shuttlecocks kamikaze across the steaming landscape, and Cambodian cockroaches get so big they almost block traffic. Noonday temperature at Siem-reap, the site of Angkor Wat, averages 130°, and dysentery is so prevalent that it has given rise to a style of half-trot called "the Cambodian canter...
...Galvin never really got down to details about his fortune, estimated at $150 million. He moved to suburban Woodside in 1955, proceeded to splash about in the social life there. He made quite a hit at first-entertaining lavishly on his estate, allowing the horsy set of Woodside to canter over his acres. He gave $50,000 to build an indoor riding ring at Stanford University in nearby Palo Alto. Even when the university turned down a daughter for admission, Galvin let the contribution stand...
Most noticeable in the Peace Corps office is the people. They don't stroll through the halls, they walk with a brisk stride, if not a canter. They type furiously, answer telephones at a fantastic rate, and always seem to be smiling...
...provided by blonde Barbara Eden, as cute a canape as ever broke a giant squid's heart. Tradition must sometimes be broken if an art form is to grow: she plays Pidgeon's secretary, not his daughter. Her function is to proceed about the submarine at canter, bearing messages, coffee and surcease from sorrow. Fully a third of the film is devoted to shots of Actress Eden running in her painted-on skirt and 4-in. heels, and there can be no question that Director Irwin Allen knows his proportions...
...friends, he ordered another batch of even bigger shots for other Louisianians who want to see how their Governor spends his time. Juvenile constituents of all ages were begging for the autographed photos, but Jimmie's Democratic colleagues had other reasons for being impressed by his canter. "It's the first time," said one, "that there's ever been a whole horse in the Governor's office...