Word: lopes
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That afternoon the politician in Lyndon took over again from the statesman. Setting out on a tour of local sights, Johnson spotted a crowd gathered on the sidewalk. He stopped his car, got out and made for the crowd at a lope, flashing a 100-watt smile. Ignoring the language barrier, he made an impromptu speech saying that Diem was the "Churchill of the decade," who would "fight Communism in the streets and alleys, and when his hands are torn he will fight it with his feet...
Distance running is for ascetics. By tradition, the sport is dominated by men with little natural speed who love to lope and to win. Such men are willing to undertake years of thankless training to whip their bodies into lean and tireless machines. They must discipline their will to the self-torture of laboring lap after lap, mile after mile. Most of the top distance runners are well into their 20s, and often beyond. But this year the perennial stars are being run into the boards by a Canadian high school senior: 17-year-old Bruce Kidd, the neighborhood newsboy...
...Bill Hulet can still lope for 15 miles on a single chase. When he trees a bear after dark, Hulet will take to a tree himself to wait out the night rather than risk a shot that might hit a leaping dog. Hulet has even gone to earth after a bear, pulling his dogs out of the tunnel by their tails until he could get into the hole for the shot at a range...
...home run, Rocky Colavito earns his $30,000 by playing with a flair that stirs delight up in the stands. After one of his flat-trajectory throws from rightfield, the "ooh!" lingers for drawn-out seconds. And when Rocky hits the long one and starts his languorous lope around the bases ("Rocky runs around after hitting a homer like he was still tasting it," says a sportscaster), the cheers follow him into the dugout...
...like. Not even his aides, dedicated as they are to his general philosophy, are allowed to know at any moment the pattern of his intentions. All that most Frenchmen have for certain this week is a memory of De Gaulle moving among masses of people with the awkward lope of a giraffe, patting a head here, shaking a hand there, peering about him with nearsighted benevolence. But they knew also that he was a man of integrity and vision, and that nothing less would suffice...