Word: jog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...judged by Christian standards. Like most honest men, the ex-G.I.s found the world's state parlous. They decided to do something about it. Church attendance was poor-an average 280 per service out of a confirmed membership of almost 1,000. The veterans' plan: to jog their neighbors back to churchgoing...
Sixty of the 107 man squad appeared yesterday to jog around the 3.7 mile course. Mikkola followed the runners by car, warning them to conserve their strength for tomorrow's race...
...often eats only two meals a day-one of rice and one of congee (millet or rice gruel), with salted turnips and bean curd now & then, meat once or twice a year. On this fuel, if he is not yet slowed by tuberculosis or premature age, he can jog four miles an hour; at a canter, he can do six. There is a style to ricksha pulling. Author Lao Sheh (Ricksha Boy) says ricksha pullers take pride in an elastic, steady gait. Two Old China Hands once put it this...
...yellow jog came creeping down The bridges, till the houses' walls Seemed changed to shadows, and St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town. -Oscar Wilde...
...white horse, made the mistake of meeting up with his old cavalry man friend, Major General William Chase, in a Tokyo suburb. The General proffered the Admiral a hoary steed and insisted that he trot his stuff. Taking the bit in his teeth, the Admiral ventured a slow, seagoing jog, dismounted quickly, gasped: "Don't leave me alone with this animal. I was never so scared in my life...