Word: strides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aspirin & Peace. After 40 years of behind-the-scenes politicking, usually as a member of the out-of-power faction, clever Laureano Gómez, 61, took his inauguration in full stride. He pledged non-violent democratic government, but claimed that the state of siege was still necessary to preserve peace. Said he: "We'll give the patient aspirin as long as the fever continues." The Liberals, Gómez said, "won't recognize me. I respect their point of view. For them I am not President, so naturally I cannot appoint them [to my government...
...league.* Whenever Miller misses the plate twice in a row, says Phillies Manager Eddie Sawyer, he asks for a new ball. "He figures it must be the ball's fault." Miller has made the jump from Class B ball (Terre Haute, Ind.) to the majors in one poised stride, has become a big factor in keeping the young Phillies at the top of the National League...
...people remembered, and were reminded of Pearl Harbor-but this wasn't the same; the shock wasn't so great, and in nine years everybody had learned something about taking crisis news in stride. Rather than feeling alarm at the risks, many seemed to be grateful for the end of an era of uncertainty. The Christian Science Monitor's Washington bureau chief, Joseph C. Harsch, a resident of the capital for 20 years, reported: "Never before in that time have I felt such a sense of relief and unity pass through the city...
...Wrote Combat's critic: "Martha, by her continuous internal tension, as in a trance, is able to communicate all the scale of human sentiments." Le Monde found that 'those naked feet lifted, brandished menacingly ... end by being an obsession." Martha Graham took this French coolness in her stride. "You see," she said, "it's a universal problem. Some like it;' others don't like it; and others are puzzled . . . It's like modern music and art. We have sometimes to wait...
...peak of her career last week, eight-year-old Proximity was rapidly becoming the Man o' War of trotting. Just shipped east from Santa Anita, where she cracked three world records (and won $28,000), Proximity's 1950 Eastern debut kept her winning stride unbroken. Her mile last week was clocked in 2:01 1/5, a new world record (by 1/10th of a second) for a half-mile track...