Word: strides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This season, as a three-year-old, the son of Bold Venture went on to win the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont, two-thirds of the triple crown, and run his total earnings to $237,725. Last week, his luck ran out. During a workout he suddenly broke stride, pulled up with his right foreleg hanging limp. X rays showed breaks in both sesamoid bones on his ankle...
Only in the sketches of Khufu, Alexander, and Hannibal does Cuppy come near hitting the stride he maintained in "How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes" and in his short articles for The Saturday Evening Post. Still, he conveys the impression that he has discovered one joke about an individual and is merely expanding it through all its variations. For most of the sketches, it is the same joke, and a not very original one at that...
...National Assembly with an assortment of independents, many of whom were hostile to Rhee. Both in Korea and abroad, Rhee's opponents called him a lame-duck President, declared that his government was discredited. Other observers believe that Rhee's government was just beginning to hit its stride last June and that the Reds attacked when they did because they could not afford to tolerate the example of an effective, popular anti-Communist government in Asia...
...business was invaded by scores of shoestring operators who tried to make a quick cleanup, flooded the market with tasteless, badly packed products and scared off so many consumers that sales slumped 20%. In 1947, more than 200 firms went bankrupt. But last year the industry hit its stride. More than 20% of all U.S. poultry (200 million Ibs.) came to dinner by way of the freezer. All told, the industry sold 1,130 million Ibs. of frozen foods and twelve million gallons of juice concentrate. And it changed the nation's cooking and eating habits: many families which...
...companies with such contracts did not yet know 1) whether they would get orders or 2) how much of their facilities would have to be used if they did. Meanwhile, many a businessman was going ahead with business as usual. Those who did get orders took them in their stride largely because they were for products they had been making only a few years ago. There was little waste of time and men, as in World...