Word: stride
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Later, in the seminary building-a former tsarist palace-Pimen, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia and head of the Russian Orthodox Church, bestows his blessing in a deep, resounding voice and offers a few words of instruction. The candidates stride forward to receive their diplomas and then bend to kiss the Patriarch's hand. Afterward, new graduates, friends, proud families and church dignitaries, assembled from all over the U.S.S.R., dine on bread, cheese, sausages and potatoes...
...women had to pay by being patronized. "Do you know that when they gave us our first leadership ratings, they said things like 'She walks like a girl'?" one woman recalls. Women were ridiculed because their voices were higher pitched and not as "commanding." Their short marching stride was thought unmilitary...
...flow of refugees. Though the State Department has hinted that some may be deported, especially if the total number of boat people exceeds the 3,500 that the U.S. initially agreed to take from the Peruvian embassy, such a move is considered unlikely. Said Reston: "We are in mid-stride here dealing with something the size of which we don't know." It was a frank admission that Castro's quick-stepping refugee policy caught the Carter Administration somewhat flatfooted...
...familiar stride of Adam Dixon was a welcome sight in the 800-meter event. Dixon ignited the crowd by resting in dead last until the gun lap, when like a vision of Dave Wottle, he switched into high gear and accelerated all the way to the finish line with another meet record...
Like animals long used to a chafing yoke, the townsfolk can take known evils in stride. Ill winds from the outside world bring them something worse. Two engineers arrive to oversee the laying of railroad lines that will forever end the isolation of the town. The local timber merchant, Pritykin (Gary Bayer), hopes to grasp the railroad-ties concession in his sweaty palms. But mostly the villagers treat the coming of the engineers as if it were a visit from royalty, bringing a scent of urbanity to their drab dismal lives...