Word: strides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Covering Bush is like covering an athletic event," says Brew, who has matched his fellow jogger almost stride for stride from Iowa to Maine to Puerto Rico. "Despite the routine gladhanding of politics, Bush truly likes people and is getting a kick out of running for President." Bush and his wife Barbara also work hard to ensure that their press escorts enjoy the process as well. Recalls Brew: "When I spent a day at their home in Houston, Barbara offered to do my laundry, while George-no one calls him Mr. Bush-lent me swim trunks and my choice...
...handle the "left Jacobin mob"; where the government, trying to repeat Britain's "opium sedation" of the Chinese, paid Leary and Alpert and Kesey and all his pranksters to popularize LSD; where George Bush is nuts for considering nuclear war. It's an intense world. It feels good to stride back out into the Elm St. sun and talk with the elderly man whose sign reads "Iran Still Holds Our Hostages--Put Kennedy in the White House" sign...
...Every tune I competed, people expected me to win. Becoming a top contender, I soon realized, had been easy compared to staying on top." Koch went into a slump that deepened as he was bombarded with questions. He has now completely revised his style, stretching out his once choppy stride and strengthening his arms in an attempt to generate more power on the uphills. And as the Olympics have drawn closer, he has emerged again, better than ever at age 24. Good enough? "Yeah," he says. "With a good race, I could...
...Crimson found its stride once, however, posting a 15-1 win over Hunter College. Berman said the squad kept Hunter's scrappy "street fighting" style under control in a way it hadn't been able to manage with New England teams earlier this season...