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Word: stridings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wore ear muffs to keep out the cries of the crowd, and he liked uncooked artichokes. But there was nothing effete about France's six-year-old Jamin as he recovered from breaking stride right after the start, overpowered the field in the stretch to win the $50,000 International Trot at Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Scoreboard | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...Sosnowiec. where an International (Communist) Mine Workers' Congress was in progress, that Khrushchev hit his stride. There he promised: "Never, never, never will we launch a war against any country anywhere at any time." (He did not promise never, never, never to stay in lands that want to get rid of the Russians.) He continued in his cocky way: "I have told the Americans: 'You have no intercontinental missiles. You have missiles that can send up oranges. We have missiles that can send up tons. Imagine the kind of bombs that could be contained in our missiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: The Confidence Man | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...Mexico, young Bob White took up work on the family paper and two hobbies: sports cars (he owns a Jag) and joining. His penchant for joining organizations got him widely known in the newspaper world, helps explain how the editor of the Mexico Ledger moved in one giant stride to become president and editor of the New York Herald Tribune. Board chairman and past president of the Inland Daily Press Association. Bob White is also a director of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, chairman of the Associated Press nominating committee, a member of the National Conference of Editorial Writers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Man for the Trib | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...Leftfielder Jim Lemon. 31, a long and lean slugger (6 ft. 4 in.. 205 Ibs.) who finally shortened his gargantuan batting stride, is tied for fourth in homers (21), stands fifth in runs batted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fireworks Factory | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

Quick-witted and active, the Etruscans loved motion in their art, depicted goats bounding, dancers leaping, warriors with lances poised. Mortuary figures gesture and smile; even the sticklike figures (see opposite), which ancient Romans hoarded by the thousands, stride and posture in space like the armature-thin figures of present-day Paris Sculptor Alberto Giacometti. Sorceress with Snake becomes almost as thin as her emblem and as attenuated as a figure by El Greco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Treasures of Etruria | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

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