Word: strided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...balding rugby player, Courrèges took both the bouquets and brickbats in his stride, innocently denied that his main aim was to lift the skirts of the Western world. "I'm not interested in a woman's knees. What's important is that the rhythm and volume of the whole be right." He insisted that customers who would be flying skirts at three-quarter mast should wear boots to boot. "Without them," he protests, "short skirts look ridiculous...
Computers did not really hit their stride until transistors and other solidstate components-tiny, reliable and cool-running-took over from vacuum tubes in 1958. The state of the art has been speeded considerably by the U.S. military and its pressing demands for larger, faster computers. One of today's computers can make more calculations in one hour than a Yankee Stadium full of scientists could make in a man's lifetime. Some of the more sophisticated machines can multiply 500,000 ten-digit numbers in one second. Even if no further advances were made in computer technology...
...mile-relay team got the same strong sniff of victory. Michael Hauck's speedy third leg put Tony Lynch only a stride behind Cornell's anchorman at the beginning of the last quarter. Lynch was still there at the finish, as the Crimson claimed second place and a large share of the credit for Cornell's meet record clocking...
...assassination: "I will lead, and I will do the best I can." There was humility also in his bowed head and his unusually short steps as he walked to and from the lectern, as if, for this day at least, he wished to replace his jaunty Texas stride with a more subdued gait...
Following Heller is no easy job, but Ackley, 49, has taken it in stride. A former University of Michigan professor who had served on the Council since 1962 before becoming chairman last November, he is a calm and retiring team man and a skillful administrator. Ackley now talks with the President at least three times daily, sends him a daily stream of communications, meets regularly with Cabinet members. He has been helping to cull the 15 presidential task-force reports for legislative recommendations, also serves with Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon and Budget Director Kermit Gordon on the troika that advises...