Word: stride
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victory of Springtime. A U.S. correspondent describes how De Lattre held briefings: "He would stride up & down, describing every move with his delicate hands, drawing himself up on tiptoe, clenching his fists and shivering or mopping his brow to express cold or heat." He was moody. An American who worked with him says: "Frequently a U.S. officer visiting De Lattre would find him hunched over his desk, holding his head in his hands. The natural reaction of the American would be: 'The man's crazy...
...excruciatingly pleasant sensation to descend from your parch at game's end and to stride a purposefully through the crowd, flaunting press passes and demanding entrance to the locker rooms. The petty officials delegated to guard such sanctums are inevitably a suspicious, lot, and it is indeed pleasant to brush these minions aside and enter to mingle with the great. Perhaps it is such moments as these which lead droves of young men to enter that underpaid and overworked field which is journalism...
...rapidly changing world we cannot know in advance what crises may arise in our lives, he explained, "but at least we should know that in the order of nature they must come to us" and we must be prepared to take them in stride...
Well Run. In Princeton last week against a combined Princeton-Cornell team, Britain's Bannister demonstrated the casual approach. In the mile, he loped along with a nine-foot stride. When he decided to take over, he spurted to the front. In characteristic English fashion he glanced over his shoulder, once almost took a header running too close to the track's concrete curb-and still won in 4:11.1. It was the second-fastest mile run on U.S. cinders this year...
Raft, whose natural deadpan registers not the slightest difference between one script and the next, takes these exotic frills in his usual dapper stride. He seems happy puttering about among his orchids and potted petunias until the government sends him off on a mission. His job: to ferret out the where and how of a counterfeit operation so gigantic that it threatens the national economy. Practically overnight, Raft latches on to the right blonde (Nina Foch), who leads him to the right tropical island, where he meets the Master Mind (George Macready), an underworld exquisite with a passion for fine...