Word: strided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...front end, the race belonged beyond question to Forward Pass. Lucky post position, an excellent ride, and a perfect pace situation all contributed to the official Derby winner's six-length lead, which seemed to grow with every stride...
...America. Unlike the destitute of other times and places, its inhabitants are not usually distinguishable by any of the traditional telltales of want: hunger-distended bellies or filthy rags, beggar's bowls or the lineaments of despair. Harlem's broad avenues?clean by Calcutta's standards?bop to the stride of lively men and women in multihued clothing; the tawdry tenements of Chicago's South Side are forested with TV antennas. Even in Mississippi's Tunica County, one of the poorest in the nation, where according to the latest census eight out of every ten families live below the poverty...
...York's Aqueduct Race Track, he made up four lengths in the stretch to win the $113,500 Wood Memorial-the same race Native Dancer won en route to the 1953 Kentucky Derby. Oh, oh. That 1953 Derby was the only race Native Dancer ever lost; knocked off stride as he rounded the first turn, he lost by a head to a 26-1 long shot named Dark Star and owned by Captain Harry Guggenheim...
...second, he whiffed Willie Mays with the bases loaded ("It was no great thrill") and blanked the San Francisco Giants, 3-0. "I'll challenge any hitter around," says Jerry, "as long as my fastball holds up and I have a curve that can keep them off stride. That's all you need in this league." As a matter of fact, that's not bad in any league...
When the paper was sold to Sam Newhouse last year for $50 million, there was worry that Vail's stride would be broken by the press lord's well-known preoccupation with the balance sheet. But that has not happened. Newhouse has appeared at the Plain Dealer only once since he bought it and has not followed his usual practice of holding down editorial staff. He obviously has no fault to find with a paper that has been increasing its circulation about 10,000 a year...