Word: strides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unimpressive 4-2 Ivy League win at Watson Rink Wednesday night. The Indians came to town dragging a 4-15 record and a 14-2 loss at Cornell behind them, but they skated hard all the way in a fierce, stick-slashing style that threw the Crimson off-stride until the final period...
...much-needed new churches in the Rotterdam suburbs, plus another in The Hague, which is part of his diocese. Although the developer who bought Rotterdam's Catholic cathedral has received a few letters warning that he will "be fried in hell," Rotterdammers have generally taken the razing in stride. "The bishop," says one Catholic merchant, "is a first-class businessman." A second Dutch prelate, Bishop Hubertus Ernst of Breda, is now planning to demolish his 19th century cathedral for similar reasons...
...picture's potentially promising plot premise purports to be the problem of two people falling in love, the boy having slept with the girl's mother. For the twenty minutes of The Graduate that chronicle the initial stages of the Benjamin-Elaine courtship, Nichols hits his stride, providing a relevant contemporary romance different from the Hollywood norm, apparently setting the scene for a comic examination of the inevitable ensuing conflicts...
...Song of the Lusitanian Bogey, an atrabilious Peter Weiss tract on the evils of Portuguese colonialism, into a mimetic dance of pain, fury, death and anticipatory joy. For a troupe in its infancy, opening night at Manhattan's St. Mark's Playhouse off Broadway marked a large stride toward the dream of Co-Founder Robert Hooks (Hallelujah, Baby!): "If in ten years we can compete with all the other companies in the country, I'll be satisfied...
...hands over the prospect of winning general agreement on a plan to renovate the aging U.S. flag fleet, whose dwindling capacity has been strained by the pressure of supplying the Viet Nam war. After months of contentious hearings, the Federal Maritime Commission, however, has just approved a stride toward greater efficiency. By a 3-to-2 vote, the commission authorized the merger of three West Coast companies into the nation's largest ship line...