Word: gallopping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jesuits rode full gallop into their new assignments: convert the heathen, reconvert Protestant Europe. Francis Xavier hopscotched from India to Southeast Asia to Japan, a country that had never before heard the Christian message. More than any others, the Society of Jesus stemmed, and sometimes reversed, the tide of Protestantism in France, the Low Countries and Central Europe. When Ignatius died in 1556, his order was nearly 1,000 strong and had dispatched its apostles to four continents...
Murder She Said and Murder at the Gallop, two Agatha Christie films, Exeter St. Theater...
...speed to his slightly uncertain fielding. In a game against the New York Mets-which Garr won in the 12th inning by uncharacteristically blasting an opposite-field home run-he robbed Met Shortstop Bud Harrelson of a sure triple with a spectacular over-the-shoulder catch at full gallop. "They say a man can't outrun a baseball," groaned Harrelson, "but Ralph Garr...
Consummate Concoctions. Leading the gallop to gloppiness is Baskin-Robbins, a California-based franchise chain with $52 million in annual sales (up 30% from 1969) and more than 900 ice cream stores sprinkled across the country. The company is the nation's largest take-out chain specializing in "hard" ice cream; it sells more of the stuff than even Howard Johnson's, where, it is commonly said, the ice cream comes in 28 flavors and the food comes...
...Army mule is a horse of another color." McCurdy said. "We are saddled with problems. We must depend upon unbridled ferocity as we take the bit in our teeth and hopefully gallop to victory. Whoa... enough of that...