Word: jogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...father of the compact car got up and dressed at 6 a.m. Usually he takes a prebreakfast jog around the grounds of suburban Detroit's Bloomfield Hills Country Club, which is adjacent to his $150,000 contemporary home. At the very least, he plays a fast game of "compact golf"-six holes, three balls. But on this particular morning, he and his wife Lenore hurried over to the polling place-to vote for George Wilcken Romney, 55, Republican candidate for Governor of Michigan. Many a politician might then have rewarded himself with a well-deserved rest...
Pedestrian malls should contain "elements of surprise," says Wolfe. "Not only should the streets jog, meander or curve, but the architectural features must change and probably not be absolutely repetitive and consistent." This produces a "system of arrested views." Wolfe feels that no vista should be longer than 600 ft. to 700 ft., as in what he calls "one of the most exciting walkways in the world": the route from the Piazza San Marco to the Rialto in Venice...
Alone among the 75 members of the International Monetary Fund. Canada had let its exchange rate bob free ever since 1950. But the IMF, and its able Swedish director, Per Jacobsson, have been increasingly irritated at the way Canada has been manipulating its dollar to try to jog the slumping Canadian economy. The IMF turned up the heat on Ottawa to peg its dollar at a fixed rate...
...35th, as he approached St. Mary's Corner-a difficult right-and-left jog in the road-the limit was passed. Said Moss, before the race: "With luck, you can take St. Mary's at 90 m.p.h." Recalled Graham Hill, afterward: "As we went into St. Mary's, Stirling was coming up on me at about 110 m.p.h. on the outside. In the mirror I saw him coming up fast, and then he just kept going straight." Moss's Lotus hurtled across 150 yds. of grass, plowed head on into an 8-ft.-high embankment, spun...
...educators' conclave and requested to bring along his most formative teacher, Bunche chose Miss Sweet, now a spry 82. Diplomatically, Miss Sweet chose to "forget" the reason why she gave Ralph only a C+ in deportment, but the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize winner quickly chimed in to jog her memory. "I've always been rather warlike," he said. "Spitballs were my weapons-and a wagging tongue...