Word: gait
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Weekend Reflection. Antoine Pinay walked into this domain of canny tacticians and dialectical dancing masters with a misleading double-gait. In the eyes of the public, he was no politician, but to the Assembly he proved to be as wily a one as had come along since the war. He put his proposals to the country as fast as he put them to the Assembly, then calmly told the Deputies: here it is; approve it, or give the responsibility to someone else. The reaction from back home suddenly sounded louder & clearer than the Parisian sidewalk café arguments so dear...
...Bostwick sadly contemplated Chris Spencer, his eight-year-old trotter. Soon after setting a track record of 3 min. 10½ sec. in the 1½-mile Gotham trot, the aging gelding had gone lame and looked finished. But Optimist Bostwick had observed that trotters swim at a trotting gait. He reasoned that Chris might get back his bounce if he could exercise his legs without jarring them on a hard track...
Bare Facts. In San Diego, the sheriff's arrest sheet on Ruby Idona Trammell read: face, flushed; gait, staggering; speech, garbled; breath, smelled of wine; eyes, bloodshot; coordination, poor; clothing, none...
...gait (the result of an old leg injury) was the only swaggering thing about Charles Keene. His sole aim in life was to make Punch readers laugh, and he was often desperate for jokes to illustrate. When someone offered a good idea, Keene invariably repaid the favor by generously sending him the original drawing. Only in his last years did it occur to him that they might be valuable, and even then he rarely charged...
...saints and apostles like Mark, Luke, John, Peter and Paul, and etch their images on the chalice. These holy men wear their hair and their platitudes long. Together with Author Costain's lumbering, pseudo-Biblical style, they reduce the pace of The Silver Chalice to the gait of a lame camel. Occasionally, the inferior doings are spiced up with superior settings, e.g., Nero's sycophantic court, a gladiatorial breakfast, Jerusalem's Dock of Atonement...