Word: strides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when the strip had hit its stride, it had pretty much vacated Walden for more pertinent venues: Cambodia, California, Washington. The show, however, mostly stays home to tackle other earth-moving topics. Will Mike Doonesbury (Ralph Bruneau), who is presented onstage as a whiny, pigeon-toed virgin reminiscent of Walter Denton on the old Our Miss Brooks TV series, throw away his prepared speech and just propose to the earnest JJ. (Kate Burton)? Will B.D. (Keith Szarabajka), the beyond-macho quarterback, survive being traded from the Dallas Cowboys to Seattle? Will California Hippie Zonker Harris (Albert Macklin) keep his crazed...
...Vignali has taken his success, like his running, in stride. "Going to Harvard, everybody has specialties," the Leverett House resident says. "Mine just happens to be playing football...
...didn't take long for Reagan to erase his one positive policy step with a much larger stride in the opposite direction. Instead of coming right out and admitting his qualms about the Marcos regime, the President gave the most namby-pamby excuse heard in recent months to explain the cancellation of his trip. In what amounted to a letter of apology to Marcos, Reagan assured the Filipino President that he would have gone ahead with the visit if it were not for a "problem with Congress." Adding more verbal saliva to Marcos' bootstraps, Reagan wrote that he was looking...
Most Israelis took the announcement in stride, just as they have ignored the economic crisis all along. Despite the negative indicators, consumers have been on a massive spending spree, snapping up appliances, going on vacations abroad and buying automobiles at a rate almost twice that of last year. The reason for their nonchalance: a combination of official and homespun safeguards that insulates almost every citizen from the roller coaster of the national economy...
Suddenly Lempke broke out of his semicrouch into an exaggerated stride against the current, which translates roughly into a 440 run in JellO. As his body moved upstream, he worked the rod in his hand in metronomic double time, back and forth, back and forth, inching toward the trout, which had broken water again just a few feet forward of the last rise. As Lempke cast, setting down the fly, an imitation of a green drake May fly, a couple of yards above the rise pattern, his words came drifting on the wind: "My wife never has to worry about...