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Campaign Manager David Keene is understandably pleased by Bush's new vigor as a speaker. Explains he: "At the beginning he was not in stride. Now he's saying what he thinks. It used to be that two out of ten of his speeches were good. Now it's seven...
...face deeply seamed with the passing years, Mother Teresa received the news with characteristic lack of fuss in the Missionaries of Charity motherhouse in Calcutta. She has won an array of international honors, and though this one carried the biggest stipend so far-$190,000-she took it in stride. "Personally, I am unworthy," she said in her first response to the award...
...opening kickoff set the tone for the match, as heavenly Crimson center forward Sue St. Louis worked the ball down to midfield before passing off to left winger Julie Brynteson. Barely breaking stride to receive the shot, Brynteson brought the ball all the way into the penalty box before a Tiger finally touched the ball and broke up the threat...
...whether she's spacy, or as Scalise suggests, merely cheerful, Ferrante takes things in stride--both literally and figuratively...
...Inauguration took place on a cold and windy day. I sat just behind the new Cabinet and watched Lyndon Johnson stride down the aisle for the last time to the tune of Hail to the Chief. Johnson stood like a caged eagle, proud, dignified, never to be trifled with, his eyes fixed on distant heights that now he would never reach. There was another fanfare and President-elect Richard Nixon appeared. His jaw jutted defiantly and yet he seemed uncertain, as if unsure that he was really there. He seemed exultant...