Word: strides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bitterness. Few men are giants to their contemporaries, and while Drury was generally fond of his Senators, he also saw their political wens and warts. Yet it is also true that the Senators of that not-so-long-ago era seemed to walk with a longer stride, to orate with a greater flourish, and to politick with greater passion than their well-barbered successors of today...
...disposition, not easily touched by the heat of emotion, danger or disaster. As the grim-faced stream of ministers came and went through the black door of No. 10 Downing Street, the watching crowds got no hint of crisis from Lord Home's broad, boyish grin and jaunty stride. The Prime Minister-designate seemed serenely untouched by the jealousies and conspiracies of his riven party. As one Tory said not long ago: "He's never scared. He just looks at you with that damn-your-eyes look and goes right on with what he's doing...
...Crimson will probably take the field in top physical condition and gross over-confidence, a mental weakness which could prove as debilitating as any physical injury. The Crimson halfback line which collapsed against M.I.T. seemed to recover some of its stride against Cornell last week, a recovery which coach Bruce Munro would undoubtedly like to see continue today...
Though still rather exhausted by its mighty move into tiddlywinks last year, Harvard's ever-expanding sports program will take another historic stride in the next few weeks when the Karate Club is formally organized. The Club, which will be open to all undergraduates, will usher Harvard into the extremely elite circle of American universities which have karate organztaions, and may indeed be the first formally organized college karate club in the nation...
Forward March, and for three days visiting former President Harry S. Truman, 79, kept Manhattan newsmen panting in his wake during those famous early-morning walkie-talkies. Never breaking his military 30-in., 120-per-min. stride, H.S.T. had something to say about practically everything. On tax cuts: "I am old fashioned. I believe you should pay in more than you spend." On desegregation: Alabama Governor Wallace "won't make it." Nonetheless, the civil rights march on Washington was "silly." The next morning Truman had a question of his own for a reporter: "Would you want your daughter...