Word: canter
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...uneventful" life includes an occasional Sunday morning canter in the park, and a so far controlled desire to bicycle to work. Don't be surprised if she loses said control one of these warm (T) days...
...General tries to finish his military day at 5 p.m. He rarely succeeds. When he does get away in time, he takes a canter on Prepare, a chestnut gelding. The ride is his only regular exercise, and his aides think that he needs it, fear that winter and the increasing press of war will force him to give it up. At 61, after 41 years in the Army, he wears his years well. He is still erect, his sandy hair is not yet wholly grey. He can put in a long day with troops in the field and be hale...
Currently appearing in "All's Fair", the celebrated song stress built up her reputation on the radio, where she has appeared on the Eddie Cantor and Abbott and Costello shows. Another alumna of the Canter program. Dinah Shore, filled this sport at the big Freshman dance last year...
...Northampton constabulary is on the job these days. Even Paul Revere would have a hard time getting through the town at more than a slow canter. The little yellow triangles with their glass-lettered '25 m.p.h." mean what they say nowadays, and woe to the luckless wretch who presses the accelerator down to the floor and watches the needle creep slowly up to twenty...
...British slang expression-which originated from a rider's sensation of breath less leveling off when his horse breaks from trot or canter into full gallop-is "flat out." Last week at last, Canada was flat out in her war effort...