Word: gait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...note that fading Russian street signs are not being repainted. Relations with the Russians have changed. Vienna boasts that it has civilized the Russians, has made them wash and pull up their pants, has taught them how to walk like Europeans (some Russians from the steppes had a curious gait, left arm and left foot swinging forward at the same time). Now, whenever shots are heard from Russian barracks, Viennese whisper: "Aha, a Russian who likes the West too much is being liquidated...
...garden behind the house. Among the rocks back of the Cove are a few grassy plots where cattle and oxen feed and small hay crops are raised. Hay is cut with a scythe, raked by women & children, hauled to the barn by oxen which move at about the same gait as Peggy's inhabitants...
Suiting his gait to his brightly-emblazoned jumper motif, Ccedrice waddled from a strategic puddle in the Square. "Of course I always rely on the impeccable taste of Lockit Company. Look here," he exclaimed, producing a clipping from a convenient quack in his ducky attire. "Harvard will be wearing purple guppies on pink underdrawers for the summer season. You bet I'll own them," he gurgled. "They give me such a feeling...
Hodge told his men: "We are midwives at the rebirth of a nation." He applied the forceps with characteristic vigor. At Kwangju, Hodge, with his old cavalryman's gait, rolled up to a bearded elder, beamed: "You know me? Hodgey!" "Hodgey!" cried the elder, and Koreans took it up. He waved from the back platform of his train (formerly Hirohito's) to crowds who turned out from sleepy grass-thatched villages. When a children's brass band serenaded him, he was delighted, and told the 63rd Infantry to get the kids better clothes. At one station, when...
...remedies for seasickness suggested by medicos and inventive travelers (ranging from champagne-drinking to an oxygen mask), perhaps the most picturesque is that of George Bernard Shaw, who, in his traveling days, claimed that he got complete immunity by padding along the deck, knees sagging, with a relaxed, apelike gait...