Word: stride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revolution in U.S. sea power. Drawn wide by a briefing officer, they reveal the secret wall maps in the blue-and-gold Pentagon office of the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations. The clock strikes 8 bells-and the Navy's boss, a sea roll to his stride, a faint touch of salt-spray green on the broad gold stripes on his sleeve, barges through the door at 31 knots. This freighter-shaped (5 ft. 11 in., 200 Ibs.) admiral, his ties fast to the old Navy and all its traditions, is plunging ahead in a new and astonishing naval...
...carefully planned routine. He lay back, just off the pace, followed Villanova's Ron Delany as he jigged through a fast first quarter (0:60.6). Bailey slogged along in the pack. At the half-mile mark Landy took over. His long muscles moving in a loose and splendid stride, he eased past Delany, and set out for home. No one else was close...
...varsity lacrosse team last week turned over a new leaf when it ended a nine game losing streak by beating M.I.T. and continued the new stride Saturday by running all over Penn...
...need) to make any real end to the cold war in Europe, or agree to any solution of the big problem, which was Germany. B. and K. went galumphing off to India and Burma where in a riot of flowers and oriental emotionalism Khrushchev hit his old demagogic stride. Asian adulation went to Nikita's head. Those who were waiting for Communism to crumble (i.e., the West), he told Pravda readers, would have "to wait until shrimps learn to whistle...
...nation's bankers promptly passed along to their customers the price increase on borrowed money. Big eastern banks hiked the prime rate, i.e., the interest they charge big borrowers with top credit ratings, from 3½% to 3¼%. On the stock market the change was taken in stride. Two days earlier Wall Streeters sensed that some anti-inflation move by the Government was due, and stocks took their sharpest slide in six months. But before week's end stocks steadied again...