Word: gait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which horses parade up the track in double file, turn and trot (or pace) down to the starting line in their lot-drawn post positions. Sometimes they make ten or 15 false starts before they all go over the line "on their gait" (without breaking stride...
...never made a red cent) has become one of the show places of the region. But he is shyly conscious of being a little more prosperous than his neighbors, is afraid of being thought a showoff. Talkative and genial, he walks with the swivel-hipped, bowlegged, rolling gait of a cowboy, wears his heart on his sleeve, tells his most intimate business to anybody who happens to be around. A sure sucker for any kind of financial venture, he has lost enough money on bogus oil stock to keep many of his neighbors in beans for a lifetime...
...they started churning around the Garden boards-Maki, loping along with hands held low like a cross-country runner-chesty, short-legged Greg Rice showing that he had as much sisu (fighting spirit) as any Finn. Mincing along in his pony gait, he stuck to Maki's heels, moving forward when Maki (coached by Tutor Nurmi, standing stop watch in hand in the infield) moved forward. For 31 laps the Notre Damer and the Finn were so close together that the Miraculous Medal on Rice's chest practically beat a tattoo on Maki's back...
...scuttling on all fours like the rest, lagged behind. Captured, he proved to be a black native boy, 12 to 14 years old. Like a baboon, he chattered, jerked and nodded his head, scratched his body with his forefinger. He had a nervous, baboon-like grin. His quadrupedal gait had caused an abnormal overdevelopment of his haunches...