Word: strides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Susie exploded from the starting gate with her wobbly ears cocked forward, her long stride eating up the ground. After just 50 yds., Devil Diver was three lengths back; at the wire, it was six. Megogo was never in the race. Without a single token tap of the whip, Susie had traveled the route in 1:56 3/5 - the identical time set by Seabiscuit in humbling War Admiral in the same race six years...
...Hodges Way. This week, back in its slugging stride, the First looked to Hodges for something new in his bag of tactics. In his trailer (built-in bunk, washstand, two chairs, a desk) he went about the business of battle much as he had gone about the business of training...
...America's hard to see," said Frost. He read his own latest attempt at grasping the American spirit, "Record Stride," introducing it as "just an offhand poem only one deep thing...
Such oratorical omelets, composed of Southern corn, overblown poetical allusions, rough waggery and incoherent rambling have seldom been presented in the halls of Congress since the days when John Randolph of Roanoke used to stride into the House, whip in hand, followed by a Negro boy with a flagon of porter, to administer a tongue-lashing to Henry Clay...
Press and radiomen were told on Monday that Indiana Senator Samuel Jackson would read President Roosevelt's long-awaited letter about Henry Wallace to them that night. The press took this in stride. So did all the networks except...