Word: strided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Occasional Winks. Chase took the boycott in stride-and so have most of the firms that have been banned from the 40 million-customer Arab market. The 40 firms owned by British Tycoon Charles Clore were barred last year when Clore and Sir Isaac Wolfson lent Jerusalem $2,000,000 to build a new town hall, and the U.S.'s Witco Chemical was blacklisted after it bought a chemical firm that had an executive who owned a piece of an Israeli oil company. The Arabs offer reinstatement to firms that stop their dealings with Israel, but the Israelis have...
...NOVELS, by Brigid Brophy. These short novels contain glittering prose, a variety of verbal tricks, and almost too many tours de force to digest at one reading. Already known as the most tart-tongued of British critics, Author Brophy has now hit a fictional stride that should place her well up in the ranks of Britain's formidable array of lady novelists...
Harvard's brilliant heavyweight crew will take its first stride toward the Tokyo Olympics tomorrow morning when it meets a highly regarded University of Washington eight and two other shells in the first round of the Olympic Trials...
...that his client is guilty." The ruling, sighed Los Angeles County Counsel John Collins, "gives the criminal one more advantage." Perhaps so, answered Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Macklin Fleming, but he added that it was a problem competent and hard-working police should be able to take in stride...
Though the family does not publish company statistics, industry insiders reliably estimate Johnson's Wax sales at close to $150 million, on which it earned at least $11 million last year. Smart merchandising counts most in the wax business, and Johnson is usually a stride ahead of competitors. It was among the first to switch from natural waxes to lower-cost synthetics in 1950, turned to aerosols (now 70% of industry sales) while competitors clung to older wipe-on waxes and polishes. The company raised its research and development staff from 100 to 300 in the past ten years...