Word: gait
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charge of delay for the Craig forces was a round, rollicking state senator named Roy Conrad of Monticello, who raises purebred Aberdeen Angus cattle. An expert in state political matters, Conrad put the slowdown on everywhere. He even changed his personal gait. From his seat near the back of the senate chamber to the microphone at the front, Conrad began to move at the pace of a tired Angus on a summer evening. Conrad was not tired; he had merely made a deal with Craig to block the Jennerite bill...
...Germany," in the Nation, a chilling report on the early Nazi regime. The article was a sensation, and Neuberger decided to become a fulltime, free-lance writer. He set up shop in his mother's house, where, between reveries over phonograph records (his favorites : marches and Gaité Parisienne), he turned out a Niagara of nonfiction. By last week, after 20 years and some 750 articles and six books (including two highly successful children's books), Dick Neuberger was earning around $30,000 a year from his typewriter...
...threaded his way with quick gait through the grey stone château resort high in the pines of the Black Forest, past his fellow guests and their nurses. On vacation, he looked as chipper as ever, walking in the morning amid the trees, kneeling for as long as an hour in the chapel, while Paul, his son, said Mass. He joshed the hotel servants; when a waiter with a Rhineland accent brought the corkscrew to open some 40-year-old brandy, he insisted that the man drink with...
...DIARY NORTH AND SOUTH (268 pp. abridged)-by William Howard Russell, edited by Fletcher Pratt-Harper ($4). "There entered, with a shambling, loose, irregular, almost unsteady gait, a tall, lank, lean man considerably over six feet in height, with stooping shoulders and long pendulous arms terminating in hands of extraordinary dimensions . . . He was dressed in an ill-fitting, wrinkled suit of black, which put one in mind of an undertaker's uniform at a funeral . . . His turned-down shirt collar disclosed a sinewy, muscular yellow neck; and above that . . . bristling and compact like a riff of mourning pins, rose...
...methods, even though Moscow, traditionally building on an industrial proletariat for years, thought he was wrong, backed other factions. Married: four times (including one wife executed by the Nationalists). Children: seven or eight, including five abandoned to peasants during the Long March. Characteristics: high-pitched voice, heavy smoker, lumbering gait. Seen in public only twice in the past four months, he has lost weight (formerly 200 Ibs.), is very likely in seriously bad health...