Word: gait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pronounced deng-gay; from the Spanish denguero, affected or dandified-indicating the stiff or unnatural gait of the sufferer...
...Last week a 25-year-old terrapin named Arkansas Express ran away with Loyola University's first turtle derby. He was bought in a fish market a month ago, and trained by pre-med students, who used Pavlov's theory of the conditioned reflex. Main feature: the "gait-straightener"-a practice track with a picture of a heron on one side, a pike on the other (both are natural enemies of the turtle...
...center of a ten-foot circle, he bounded out with a straight gait in 30 seconds flat, as 100 fans cheered. There were no rules governing the race: one contestant dropped dead of an overdose of adrenalin. Arkansas Express will be entered in turtledom's Kentucky Derby, the sixth annual turtle trudge at the University of Detroit this week...
Some Argentines will remember Messersmith-he was consul general in Buenos Aires in 1928. They will remember a stubby man with a cocky gait, invariably armed with a cane and wearing a flower in the buttonhole of his well-draped coat. Other foreign embassies around the world remember him for his unbending ways and a cold manner punctuated by discreet belches; he is dyspeptic...
...this fuel, if he is not yet slowed by tuberculosis or premature age, he can jog four miles an hour; at a canter, he can do six. There is a style to ricksha pulling. Author Lao Sheh (Ricksha Boy) says ricksha pullers take pride in an elastic, steady gait. Two Old China Hands once put it this...