Word: loping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Some writers become both fascinated and horror-struck by words and letters. The Spanish dramatist Lope de Vega wrote five successive novels, omitting the letter a from the first, e from the second, i from the third, o from the fourth, u from the fifth. Franz Kafka was hopelessly drawn to the letter k. Kierkegaard, the father of existentialism, would drop such remarks as, "I am as reflexive as a pronoun," or, "I feel like a letter printed backward in the line." The French poet Louis Aragon spoke for many bedeviled writers in his poem entitled "Suicide...
...discuss plans for speeding up antirecession highway spending. New Mexico's Dennis Chavez, chairman of the Public Works Committee, joined Johnson and Gore, agreed to skip hearings on the highway bill and clear it for Senate consideration by this week. Lyndon Johnson left his office at a lope, looked in at a meeting of the Armed Services Committee, trotted back to his office, gulped down a cup of hot bouillon, greeted Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey for a discussion about farm supports...
...balding, knob-kneed, bony-shouldered George Yardley, 29, is an improbable-looking champion indeed. When he puts on his basketball uniform he looks like an absent-minded scientist who left home without his trousers. The illusion ends when the game starts. Then the Bird's loose, court-covering lope, his deft shots, his imperturbable balance in under-the-basket brawls, all blend into a 6-ft.-5-in., 195-lb. paragon of pro basketball...