Word: strides
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Summers had good cause for his confident stride. The year just past had been, by all accounts, his most successful since taking office in 2001. The turbulence of his early tenure had subsided. His critics lay dormant. And as Summers prepared to meet with fellow members of the University’s top governing board, his bosses were pleased...
...Follow the money," Deep Throat immortally advised Woodward, and the fact that Felt was now himself doing so, trying to parlay his Vanity Fair confession into a book deal, distressed some people. Besides retaining their looks, the spring in their stride, people who do good things are not supposed to cash in on them--however belatedly. That Felt may have had other, less than noble motives for his actions--he was angry at the Nixon Administration because he was passed over for the directorship of the FBI--also counted against him. When altruism is tainted by apparently mean--actually entirely...
Harvard took adverse conditions in stride at the 64th Annual Coast Guard Alumni Bowl, held at Yale Saturday and Sunday, as it finished second in an 18-team field weighted with many of the nation’s best...
Thus, I got a warm reception when I made my outstanding fielding play of the afternoon. Seeing a well-struck Michele McAteer hit heading for the gap in right-center, I got on my horse. I made the one-handed grab in stride with a leaping flourish...
More melodic than past releases, this album sounds like Oldham hitting full stride. By all means as minimalist as his past work, his Appalachian, flannel-tinged sound is more heart-wrenching here than ever before. A worthy classic...