Word: gallop
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Daugherty: "George runs with his legs wide apart, almost at a gallop. That's what makes him so hard to bring down. If you get only one leg and the other's still moving, he jerks it away and he's gone." A bone-rattling blocker, Saimes enjoys banging shoulder pads with defensive ends who outweigh him by 25 lbs. or more. "I like to go at an end straight up," he says, "as though I were carrying the ball. When I hit him, I try to play my helmet right under his chin as hard...
...Stratford. He has turned down five long-term movie contracts, did Saturday Night and Sunday Morning on a one-film basis for Playwright John Osborne's producing company. "I'm only 24," says Albie Finney, "and I want to feel free to gallop around. I don't particularly want to be an international star by the time I'm 30. And meanwhile, I don't want to be the second Olivier. I want to be the first Finney...
Compared with The Plantation (TIME, March 2, 1953), Author Pierce's impressive first novel, On a Lonesome Porch suffers from literary jerry-building. What saves it is its subtle, flexible prose, which can gallop in tense, comma-strewn sentences when Northern cavalry slashes through the Carolinas, or laze through a hot summer afternoon with three plaintive, motherless Negro children. And when Pierce softly traces Miss Ellen's genteel footsteps, he enlivens in a rare, vivid way the mind of the Old South...
...description of the race over the loudspeaker. Progressing never did begin to run and finished fourth. Back at the barn, Mr. Fitz stared at the barely lathered horse, mused aloud: "He's just got too much nonsense in him today. Just looks like he had a good gallop for himself. We've got to run him to get him sharpened...
None but they could seriously envision a future Harvard where herds of dull and nasty little deans and silly pin-headed, tenured boobs will gallop around alternately alabaster and basalt towers; where, while the rest of the faculty has departed for Stanford and Johns Hopkins, a number of University professors will remain to "push back the frontiers of knowledge" and give an annual series of three lectures (open to the public); where 48 undergraduate Houses will be connected by a subway system centered at University Hall Under, beneath the office of the Dean and Traffic Coordinator of Harvard College...