Word: strided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Willie the Lion Smith, 69, has been creating something for himself for more than half a century - and talking about it as fast as he could play it. With Fats Waller and James P. Johnson dead, he is the last of the great "stride style" pi anists who flourished in Harlem in the '20s and '30s. The style - so named be cause the left hand shuttles between low notes and midrange chords in an oompah pattern - draws its riches from ragtime, and it requires a "two-fisted tickler" to make it roll...
...monosyllabic chart writer, that is poetry. Proud Clarion, despite a less than perfect ride by jockey Bobby Ussery, also started to make a good move in the stretch, and for a split second it looked like it might be the Derby all over again. But he tired and his stride shortened, while Damascus, without the whip through the last half furlong, kept drawing away. The slow-motion TV camera caught his almost effortless stride at the end, and it looked as if the Belmont's additional 5/16 of a mile could have been his for the asking...
...Canadian working in the U.S. I read "Canada Discovers Itself" with interest, enjoyment and inner laughter, for the piece portrays the feelings of most Canadians factually, humorously, and with candor. Expo 67 will accomplish in one giant stride what Canada has struggled to accomplish for so long: to become a fully recognized country on her own merits as a power in the world's arena...
Settling into Stride. For a jockey, Gentry and Galbreath eventually signed Bobby Ussery, 32, winner of more than 3,000 races in a 16-year career and veteran of four previous Derby tries. "Let him settle into his stride before you make your move," Gentry told Ussery. It seemed like useless advice. On the first turn, Proud Clarion was buried in the pack, and Ussery's face was spattered with mud as Barbs Delight fought Damascus for the lead. In the backstretch, Ussery moved to the outside, eased in behind the leaders-and waited. Then, coming into the homestretch...
With his literary criticism and political essays, Mailer hit his stride as a phrase-maker; even his erstwhile debating opponent, William F. Buckley, calls him the most quotable writer of our time. Mailer dismissed Salinger as "the greatest mind ever to stay in prep school," said that Scranton's wheeler-dealers at the Republican convention "stood by idle wheels," and labelled Lyndon Johnson "the bully with an Air Force...