Word: strides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opportunity that's the place I would go") over Yale and a host of other Ivy League schools ("Yale was out of the question: I didn't want to stay in New Haven.") Fleming proceeded to rip apart opposing Ivy league defenses. Following as sporadic freshman year. Fleming hit stride during the 1979-80 campaign, averaging 19.6 points per game in League play (19.9 overall) and earning first-team all-Ivy honor. This year, in spite of an early season slump, Fleming has scored at an 18.2 ppg clip and is almost a clinch to repeat on the all-League...
...previous race, Ezeji-Okoye was pushed while rounding the first turn of the 500 He fell out of his lane, lost his stride and failed to finish...
...middle-distance specialists matched each other stride for stride to the finish line, but Rowe thrust out his chest for the crucial hundredth of a second...
Reagan took that advice with zest. At a Minnesota Independent Republican Party fund raiser to help re-elect Senator David Durenberger, the President started slowly but hit his stride by relying on a technique that had served him well in the past. Pointing to young people in the audience, he defended his unparalleled peacetime military spending as a campaign to make America "so strong that no other generation of young Americans will have to bleed their lives into foreign battlefields or beachheads some place out in the oceans." The Republican audience exploded with cheers...
...taste in music, but the capacity audience in attendance last Saturday didn't need diplomas from Juliard to tell that "The Imperial March" was a mistake. Boos, hisses, and the kind of language normally reserved for referees were aimed at the band which as usual took it all in stride. "We try to be light, entertaining, non-chalant," said one band member after the fiasco. "The more crowd response we elicit the better--bad or good...