Word: stride
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relief, when you spot an amusement arcade called Station Break. Blessed salvation! Is this name not synonymous with the dash from the television to the bathroom? Step inside, put a quarter in the Xenophobe game so they can't tell you the rest rooms are for patrons only, then stride to the back, there to be greeted by this sign: 'SORRY!' NO RESTROOMS. Punctuation courtesy of the cosmic joker...
...Cambridge, Mass., the Stride Rite company is building an "intergenerational center" near its headquarters to provide day care for up to 60 children and 30 elderly relatives of its employees. Stride Rite chairman Arnold Hiatt believes the center, scheduled to open in 1991, will have advantages over facilities that cater strictly to children or the elderly. Since the two groups will share some activities, both are expected to get more out of the experience...
Donovan took the awkward pitch in full stride and outran Princeton cornerback Vince Avallone to the end zone...
...Jamaica is no longer as vulnerable to disaster as it was 37 years ago. "Hurricane Charlie left us with nothing but church and prayers," says Peter King, the country's chief trade representative abroad. "This time we're not rolling over. Our economy is more diversified, and we'll stride forward. We're not going to let the clock run backwards...
...meter run, the finale of the heptathlon. If she could stay within about 15 yds. of the Australian Glynis Nunn, Jackie's lead under the weighted point system would hold up. But her left leg was bound with a hamstring wrap that crippled her confidence more than her stride...