Word: gait
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...delight and amuse: if you think 200 pounds of Margaret Rutherford atop a slender mare is funny, wait until you see her do the twist in an evening gown. Ron Goodwin's music adds greatly to her mammoth charm; its ponderous bounce exactly matches Miss Rutherford's own inimitable gait...
...Beaton) as "an authoritative crane." Though she is a generous flatterer of the physical attributes of others, even her own admiring friends must strain to return a compliment ("Well," said one, straining, "she has a strange and marvelous spine"). Her walk has been described as a camel's gait, her nose as something stolen off a cigar-store Indian. Yet thousands of women cut their hair because of her, cream their skins, shorten their sleeves, and belt their coats, all at the iron whim of a woman whose face is as rarely photographed and widely unknown as the moon...
James considered habit the great conservative agent of society. "It dooms us all to fight out the battle of life upon the lines of our nurture or our early choice." He felt that most personal habits, such as vocalization, pronunciation, gesture, and gait are fixed...
PARKINSON'S disease presents a distressing set of symptoms. The patient suffers from shaking palsy. His gait becomes abnormal, and eventually he cannot walk. Finally there is a boardlike rigidity to his entire body that renders him immobile...
...understanding between the big powers, according to Felix, is that political assassination will not be included in secret operations, on the theory that the murder of chiefs of state cannot resolve the existing conflicts between East and West. The recruitment of good U.S. secret agents is difficult, largely because gait, posture, manner and even physique make Americans readily identifiable abroad. As a result, U.S. intelligence services draw largely on naturalized U.S. citizens-which makes it somewhat easier for the Russians to penetrate the system by planting a counterspy in the guise of a recent defector...