Word: strided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third offering of the current Shakespeare-Marlowe Festival, Marlowe's "King Edward II," Director George Hamlin has chosen to present not a poetry reading, but a play. His readers really act--they stride martially on and off the stage, gesture and turn to each other, sprawl about the reading stands, and altogether give us something like a full production. The result is a throughly exciting performance of a great neglected drama...
...HAVEN, Feb. 29--The Harvard hockey team finally hit its stride tonight taking advantage of every Yale mistake and making few of its own, to multilate the Elis...
...Johnson. By the time he was 14, Monk was playing jazz at hard-times "rent parties" up in Harlem. He soon began turning up every Wednesday for amateur night at the Apollo Theater, but he won so often that he was eventually barred from the show. He was playing stride piano?a single note on the first and third beats of the bar, a chord on the second and fourth. Unable to play with the rococo wizardry of Art Tatum or Teddy Wilson, though, he found a way of his own. His small hands and his unusual harmonic sense made...
...wagging, hands plucking at his track togs (somebody said later) "like a shy man with broken suspenders." The steak-and-potatoes gave him a few twinges, but by the half-mile mark, he had his mind on other things. He stepped up his pace, was running second, just a stride behind John Camien of Kansas State Teachers College. Just before the three-quarter-mile mark, he slipped past Camien, and the announcer called out the time...
Over the Hump. The President took the G.O.P.'s criticism in full stride. "You know," he quipped, "you'd think if there was anyone in the world who would be pleased with a lower budget, it would be Republicans." The fact is that Johnson, in the face of built-in budgetary increases that come to $3 billion a year, was making the first real effort in years to reverse the spending trend. He set forth a philosophy that should indeed have pleased the Republicans. "Our fiscal program," he declared, "will shift emphasis sharply from expanding federal expenditures...