Word: strided
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Real Fats Waller (Camden). The late master of the stride piano wheels exuberantly through some early classics (Carolina Shout), clowns it up in some typically hammy vocals ("I'm da Shook, da Shake, da Sheik from Araby"), and displays flashes of his more filigreed style in his own Ain't Misbehavin...
...overtime work in missile plants, lifted Wilson's numbing hold-down on spending for B-52 bombers, Strategic Air Command fuel, basic research. On orders from President Eisenhower, McElroy worked out and steered through Congress a reorganization plan that, on paper at least, took a long stride toward unified control of the Defense Department (TIME, April...
...year ago, from Palestro onward-the rebel zone-the same road was almost deserted. The astonishing thing now is that mingling with the steady stream of trucks are families, both European and Moslem, in private cars, ignoring the charred remains of a car by the roadside and taking in stride the signs warning motorists not to stop and that the road is closed after 6:30 at night...
Gone with the Wind. Coach Jackson patiently worked to refine Woodhouse's galloping, head-bobbing stride ("Sometimes he'd have his shoulders almost up to his ears"). Last year, with a more relaxed style, Woodhouse pressed Morrow so closely that in three races the judges overlooked him completely for second because in photo finishes the two Abilene jerseys appeared as one. With Morrow graduated this year, Woodhouse equaled the world mark, ran a 9.1 race that will not count because he had a favoring wind at his back. "I've improved every year," says Woodhouse...
...United Artists). Silent over the battlefield hang the stars of a clear spring night. Suddenly a loudspeaker, shockingly close, blares among the forward positions: "WELCOME TO THE MEAT GRINDER!" The U.S. infantrymen, slogging up the lower slopes of Pork Chop Hill in central Korea, skip a heartbeat and a stride, and then move grimly forward-^into the meat grinder. And the audience moves with them into this heart-racking film translation of S.L.A. Marshall's classic report on Pork Chop Hill (TIME, Nov. 19, 1956)-that inopportune Thermopylae where the American fighting man wrote in blood, at a moment...