Word: strides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pierre France has a new hero. Two French producers said last week they would make movies about him. In a busy warehouse, an unemployed carpenter looked up from counting emergency-issue blankets to watch the tough Abbé stride past. "There goes another St. Vincent de Paul," he said. "Only better. He's so much more efficient...
...Banner, then straightened a bit more as the band struggled through the Luxembourg national anthem, Ons Hémecht (Our Homeland). At the starter's gun, medium-built (5 ft. 9 in., 155 Ibs.) Barthel was off with the pack, running smoothly and easily with his short-legged stride...
Wilson is especially proud of his crack mile relay team, which placed second in the K. of C. Meet recently. He feels that they would have placed first, except for the fact that anchor man Wharton was unable to regain his stride after being knocked off balance attempting to pass Brown's anchorman, John Connor. They did, however, beat a highly regarded Yale freshman relay team...
...callers at Washington receptions. One denizen of the social world once said to her: "Oh Evie, somebody told me you had a piece about me today. We don't take the News, but my servants do. Would you send the column to me?" Evie takes such jibes in stride. Says she: "My readers are janitors and cab drivers and ambassadors and Cabinet members' wives. What the hell, if I have a back-door public I don't care. As long as people like my own cook read me, I guess I don't have to worry...
...mile, and two-mile events were runaways for the Terriers' Bill "Wee Willie" Smith and John Kelly, who romped away in the final laps. Dave Alpers and Renny Little did manage to pace Smith stride for stride in the 1000 until Smith's stamina prevailed...