Word: strides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country teams in coach Bill McCurdy's regime will begin its season against Providence College and Boston University this afternoon in Franklin Park. Providence has the nucleus of a strong 1958 team back this year, but, as McCurdy said yesterday, "if the varsity can't take this meet in stride, it's due for a rough season...
...president of National Boxing Enterprises, Inc. of Illinois (successor to the I.B.C.), which puts on TV's Wednesday-night fights. "I was picked up and handled like a murderer," complained Gibson after his arrest in Chicago. As for Jordan, he was taking the whole affair in stride. When newsmen finally caught up with the champ, he was hanging around with none other than gangland's celebrated Mickey Cohen...
Final score: Geneva 35, Coast Guard 0. Coach Graham tried to take the debacle in stride; come what may, he is planning to spend the next 20 years at the academy, and the academy is planning to have him. "I'm not worried," said Graham in the dressing room after the game. "Did I seem worried? I wasn't a bit nervous...
...chief took the Governor's lecture in stride. After all, he said, "this is only the beginning...
Many stocks, including some electronics, regained much of the lost ground before week's end. Wall Street took the break in stride, cautious but unfrightened. With prospects ahead of an economic spurt once the steel strike ends, most Wall Streeters expect the averages to break through the 700 mark before year...