Word: strides
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...have to make a quick trip abroad. En route from the office, you book yourself on a flight using a device the size of a cigarette pack. As you stride into the airport, a camera zooms in on your face and compares your features with those stored in its database. Voila! You're checked...
After shoulder ailments sidelined Karlen early this season, he has found his stride and is currently at the pinnacle of his game. With nowhere to look but forward, Karlen is on pace to at least crack the top 10, possibly top-five, in this season's individual rankings...
Thiemann offered three courses last semester: a seminar on "The Public Intellectual," "Religion and Society Colloquium" and "Colloquium in Technology." Despite the controversy surrounding his departure, students at HDS seem to be taking his return in stride. According to the Registrar's Office, Thiemann's classes have each attracted about seven to nine students, an average enrollment figure for seminars and colloquiums...
Harvard was prepared to counteract this strategy, though, as Clemente launched a long pass court immediately as Gellert sprinted down the court. The "touchdown" pass hit Gellert in stride and the junior guard converted the easy lay-up for a 57-53 lead...
...people who think he's a little too full of himself, his walk is further evidence. Al Gore leans slightly forward and barrels along without looking sideways, which gives people the idea that he's not much of a lateral thinker. Bill Clinton has a galumphing, knock-kneed stride that explains why, as a 6' 2" 200 lb. high-school student in Little Rock, Arkansas, he was in the band rather than on the football team. The camera shot of him walking by himself - steely-jawed and deeply self-conscious - along a narrow hallway into the Democratic convention...