Word: strides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...starved, half-naked scarecrows with rags on their feet and bits of coonskin on their heads, have been issued their evening meal. It is so crawling vile the wretches spew it out. A pair of long-hunters are about ready to go home when General Washington and his staff stride by, looking for men with whole shoes to go on a foraging expedition...
When hard, fortyish Colonel Robert de la Roque marched with his quick, springy stride into the Premier's office anything was possible, including - as some jittery Paris papers pointed out - civil war. Gold was in panicky flight from France, citadel of the Gold Standard. Nearly $50,000,000 worth had been drawn by frightened capitalists from the Bank of France within 48 hours to be rushed abroad. Moreover Premier Doumergue had every reason to believe that he had the nation with him and against the politicians on his project of reforming the Constitution. For days delegations had been arriving...
...winning ball team with geisha girls and have a winning ball team left. And when you add a dash of fried eels for lunch and a bit of raw fish for dinner, the result is appalling. That was another thing that was bound to threw a nine off its stride. They say that you could get cooked food but it consisted of fish heads with the eye-balls served up as a delicacy. Even roast prime ribs of beef an just would have been welcome...
...opponents. But when the steam roller started to move, the slaughter was ghastly. Darmouth was the first victim and Yale the most glorious. With the extra few days that his players will have this year with the early start, Coach Gallagher hopes to have his team hit its stride long before the Dartmouth clash...
...them are on their toes. The first day of maneuvers caught him in the Futa Pass in the Apppenines just as a regiment of cock-feathered Bersaglieri, the corps in which he served during the War, was passing. Out of his staff jumped Benito to shoulder a rifle and stride along with the column for over a mile. Promptly he amended his orderto his Cabinetnot only to serve with the trrops, but to mix with the trops "to get into the spirit...