Word: strides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gehrmann started it by remarking to a reporter: "Wilt wasn't going so fast in that last quarter; I had to cut my stride twice to prevent running over him." Wilt, who sets the pace, usually to see Gehrmann beat him (13-4) with a sprint in the final strides, lost no time replying: "That's a lot of bunk ... I go all out in these races and run to the best of my ability. I don't think Gehrmann does . . . Why doesn't he take over the pace and show the public his best...
...admitted its first Negro student. He set up a new department of biological sciences, a speech clinic, a psychological services center for veterans. In 1950, when his daughter's health demanded a change of climate, he accepted the top job at Vermont. There, he had scarcely hit his stride when the call came from New York...
Crimson coach Cooney Weiland praised his team after the game. "They're just hitting their stride," he said. "The whole team looks tremendously improved, and if they play like that, they can take anybody...
Second time out, in The Seasons' Difference, he runs wide around the turns of meaning, breaks stride in the stretch and pulls up lame at the finish. As before, Novelist Buechner carries a minimum plot load, but the gravity of his theme is enough to make him stumble. He sets himself two problems that have tripped up better novelists: 1) to etch the profile of a saint without making him a prig, 2) to make a religious experience ring with the homely authority of an alarm clock...
Cast as the girl's haughty father, who turns incongruously into a sentimental old dear, Clifton (Belvedere) Webb takes another sizable stride in his descent from actor to movie type. Elopement contains one passably good visual gag: a modern reclining chair that slowly tips its occupant upside down. But the film is so hard up for comic ideas that it has to use the same gag twice...