Word: strided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Interim Agreement. The French departure was taken in cool stride by the rest of NATO's 14 full-time members. NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, U.S. General Lyman Lemnitzer, issued a heartfelt order of the day to the 2,400 departing French troops, expressing the West's "appreciation for your most valuable service in the past and my sincere hopes for your future success." Simultaneously, Lemnitzer was complying with another deadline: De Gaulle's demand that U.S. forces leave France by next April. U.S. Air Force Colonel Harold Fulmer, flying the first American planes and equipment (mostly...
...Relief. Last week the de Pasquale String Quartet made its Manhattan debut in Town Hall and all was sweet accord. Billed as the FIRST ALL-BROTHER QUARTET IN MUSICAL HISTORY, they were a trifle jittery in the opening Hayden Quartet in D Minor, Op. 76, but soon found their stride. Turning to the contemporary, their readings of Quincy Porter's Quartet No. 3 and Vin cent Persichetti's Quartet No. 2 crackled with clean precision. In Dvorák's Quar tet in F Major, Op. 96, their tempos, if sometimes inflexible, were brisk and lively, their...
President Johnson took the cries of shortage and mismanagement in folksy stride. At his press conference, he drawled comfortably: "We recognize that every day you do not have all you want, where you want it, when you want it in an operation as big as the Government conducts. I ran out of lead pencils last night in my night-reading about 2 o'clock. I wondered why they didn't sharpen some that were there; they had all broken off. But there was nobody around to criticize, so I had to get up and go to my coat...
...credentials include a third place in last year's NCAA championships, in which he led the field to the last hurdle before losing stride briefly. He won the IC4A championship in 51.5 last season and lowered that to 51.1 in the NCAA semifinals...
Clean-Cut & Brilliant. He began hitting his stride with plastic accessories. Then from sun goggles and huge choker necklaces the jewelry grew into whole dresses, until currently he buys 30,000 meter-square sheets of Rhodoid plastic a month. But production is still painstakingly slow: ten days for a short shift, 15 days for a long dress...