Word: lope
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, the why is what he thinks about and what he wines about. His continent-crossing is not competitive; he's not the first to lope across the states and has no ambition of going the fastest. And in the end, neither reader nor writer is any closer to the answer to this question...
...just to make sure everyone was satisfied, the team avoided the nastiness of having first, second and third place finishers and instead had the top three runners--freshman Peter Jelley, sophomore Paul McNulty, and junior Bruce Weber--lope in together for a three-way tie. The three clocked a time of 31.18 over the boggish ten kilometers. The Crimson thus acquired the peculiar distinction of having four different runners take firsts after just three races. Only Weber has copped the laurels twice...
...President. The first National Security Adviser was a kind of aide-de-camp to Ike, more clerk than policy planner. But the next thing we knew, he had moved across the street and was in the White House basement, close to the President's communications center, a lope or two from John Kennedy's ear. When we woke up a few months after Nixon's Inaugural, the adviser, in the shape of Henry Kissinger, had claimed the best office in the West Wing at the President's own level. It was a measure of the enlarging...
...scenario was simple: John Connally, after a successful lope through the primaries, would come to Detroit packing a wealthy and unstoppable political force. He would later ride out of the Motor City with the momentum to carry him past a slumping Democratic challenger. The people of the United States would wake up and recognize their need for strong leadership and would call Big John back from his Texas ranch to lead the country...