Word: strides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capital takes all manner of demonstrations in its daily stride. But the young people who descended on the White House last week taught the city something new about protests. They marched in silence, communicating with one another in sign language, their faces and bodies contorted with frantic energy as they sought to convey the emotional content of their message. They were students from Washington's Gallaudet University, the nation's only liberal arts college for the deaf. Their message, in the words of Student Rebekah Hammer: "Prejudice is believing that hearing people have to take care of deaf people...
...believe I'm more like South Carolinians than any candidate in the race," it sparked the impish notion that the airport lobbies in Kansas and Florence probably do look fairly similar. In any case, the South Carolina press corps took the antiseptic locale of the Dole visit in stride. As a local TV reporter put it, "If you've been to Florence, you'd know we don't have very many other places to meet...
...took her victory in stride, for winning competitions is nothing...
...Colgate hockey coach, like his squad, has never taken defeat in stride. When the final score favors the opposing team, Slater starts rehearsing for his role in Star Wars...
...think that he would have learned to take the holidays in stride, to sashay through the swing season with a dignified sense of balance. Not the Captain. Balance was supposed to come with middle age, but these days he feels shakier than ever. The season overwhelms him with its polarities. Grand abstractions are undercut by particular forms. The gratitude of Thanksgiving reduced to a half-chewed drumstick. The generosity of Hanukkah and Christmas to Tammy Faye Bakker dolls. The renewal of New Year's to a horn toot...