Word: strided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said that Senator Goodell's plan to end the war by the end of 1970 might endanger his own efforts to end it sooner. When he's boxed into a corner, a man does strange things. And we're all heading for the same goddamn corner at a godawful stride just at the moment...
FIRST--BRISTO COUNTY showed signs of life in last race, worked a handy six furlongs recently, and reaches best stride over distance...
...psych worked. The Belmont got off to such a slow start that in the backstretch Dike loped to a five-length lead. With a half-mile to go, Jockey Braulio Baeza eased Arts and Letters through an opening and went to the front. Jockey Bill Hartack, apparently thrown off stride by the slow early pace, made his bid coming into the homestretch. It was too late. Driving for the wire, Arts and Letters held the lead and won going away by 51 lengths over Majestic Prince, with Dike third. The game little colt picked up first-prize money...
Arts and Letters, a late developing three-year-old, has been trained by a master. Eliot Burch has trained other Belmont Stakes winners (Sword Dancer, Quadrangle), and probably has another in the small but long-striding son of the undefeated Ribot. Bred for the classic mile-and-a-half distance, this horse will finally have a chance to show his class on the long backstretch at Belmont. There will be no tight turns to prevent this horse from reaching his best stride. He should win convincingly. 50 per cent chance...
...which not so long ago determined whether fresh milk was available at the store, has become a subject of occasional levity. At Paris' Ca-veau de la République, a political cabaret near the Place de la République, performers last week managed to take the political news in stride. "Imagine if Premier Couve de Murville were to become President," groaned one. "Saying 'Vive De Gaulle' was easy enough, but what a time we would have shouting 'Vive Couve de Murville.' " Another, noting that Daniel Cohn-Bendit, leader of last spring's student rioting, had been out of action lately...