Word: strided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...field championships in San Diego, where the team to meet the U.S.S.R. at Kiev this month was chosen. Proving that his astonishing 10,000-meter victory in the Olympics was no fluke, Mills held off a strong challenge from Washington State's Gerry Lindgren, 19, who matched him stride for stride through a bristling 58 sec. final quarter-mile before Mills breasted the tape barely inches ahead. Timers called it a dead heat, and both will get the record, join other winners at Kiev. Among them: Kansas Schoolboy Jim Ryun, 18, whose 3 min. 55.3 sec. mile surprised observers...
Whether noisy or quiet, at least one thing differentiated the speakers this year. Where they once used to stride along roads (long), sail oceans (uncharted), or climb mountains (lofty), they are now in orbit (dizzying). Said Emmett Dedmon, executive editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, at George Williams College: "May the explosions of your generation cut as clean as those which freed the capsule of Gemini IV from the booster engines." Whatever his fellow editors might think of that particular metaphor, Dedmon stated the dominant theme of the 1965 commmencement speeches: the "explosions" of the younger generation...
...confusing as rating thoroughbred "flat" racers, and even then there are dozens of ways for the best horse to lose. He can get caught in a "blind switch"-boxed in by opponents' sulkies. He may be startled by the flick of the whip into "breaking"-going off stride. He can be "hung" wide on the turns and lose too much ground to make up. Or he may simply draw an impossible post position-far on the outside, or in the second...
...Ervin got up and went to the hospital with a wrenched back, a damaged kidney and a pinched intestine. Bret got up-and won by four lengths with a substitute driver. Last month, in the $125,236 Cane Futurity at New York's Yonkers Raceway, another horse broke stride on the first turn and caromed off Bret's sulky. "I almost went into orbit," shuddered Ervin, after crossing the finish line 31 lengths in front...
...John F. Kennedy Jr., 4, and until recently few people knew that back in February Jackie had quietly enrolled him in the nursery class of St. David's School in Manhattan. Like the well-bred moppets they are, his classmates certainly seem to take it all in stride. When the roll was called one day a few weeks ago, one of them casually volunteered: "John's not here. He's gone to London to see the Queen...